Mr. Speaker, the government has been fully engaged on every trade file with the United States.
The Minister of International Trade and the Prime Minister never lose an opportunity to raise it, whether in Santiago or wherever we meet with them in the world.
The member said that the foreign affairs minister has only been to Washington once in four months. I have met Secretary of State Powell numerous times, in Santiago at the APEC, in Sharm El-Sheikh at the G-8 meeting, with the Arab League we met in New York.
This is the way diplomacy functions nowadays. The government is fully engaged and raises these files every--