Mr. Speaker, I forgot to advise you that I will be sharing my time with my colleague from Macleod.
The hon. member's question is precisely what I was talking about and why I raised the question about whether this was the right approach to take.
Human rights is one of those values that Canadians want to see in our foreign policy. Human rights is a very strong value that Canadians are looking for in our foreign policy. That will only come if we have a concentrated policy.
What we could have now, if the government breaks up these departments, is the new department of international trade deciding that trade is all together separate from human rights. It may go in the direction of only following trade and saying that trade and human rights are not linked.
This is a Canadian value and Canadians are concerned about human rights. Canadians would like human rights to be up in the forefront as does my party.
To answer the member's question, human rights is one of our concerns as well, which is why we are saying that we will not support the bill until it goes to the committee where these issues can be brought forward and addressed, and where we can hear what departmental officials and the government have to says about this.
What we have right now is the government's unilateral policy out there. It has decided this is the way it is going to go without any other questions being answered as were asked by the hon. member.