Madam Speaker, my question is one that comes up often in international trade circles. What kind of strategies should Canada be pursuing?
One argument is that we have a huge market in the United States which is relatively easy to access and is close at hand. It is a culture that we understand. It is also a huge and very rich market. By the same token, we have something like 86% or thereabouts of our trade going into that market. Someone in business would say that they want to diversify.
The counter argument is that we should be diversifying our trade away from the United States into Asia and places beyond to achieve that kind of diversification result.
I wonder what the member's views might be with respect to that particular point.