Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for raising that issue. It gives me a chance explain to those who might not understand when people suggest that the NAFTA might be causing these problems.
I do not think they understand how many more problems very similar to this we would have without a free trade agreement . The U.S. could do this unilaterally all the time and we would have all sorts of protectionism against our products.
Obviously in this situation, as the member has said, the NAFTA has not worked because there are sovereignty trade issues in both countries. Each country has the ability to offer programs of its own to protect its own businesses and maybe that is not appropriate. I think the minister would be happy to look at proposals the opposition has relating to fixing that up.