Mr. Speaker, it is the Prime Minister's job to explain it, not our job to rubber stamp it.
The U.S. has reached free trade agreements with Chile, Singapore, Australia, Bahrain, Central America, Dominican Republic and Morocco, and is in hot pursuit of three more.
In the past few years the number of free trade agreements reached by Canada is none. With no international policy review we have no idea what the government's trade priorities are.
The U.S. continues to plough forward, but our Prime Minister tinkers and dithers.
Why has this government failed to keep up with the U.S. in expanding international trade?