Mr. Speaker, on the heels of a booming economy and significant internal economic reforms, the World Food Programme director, James Morris, has announced that at the end of 2005 the program will no longer be an active operating program in China. China no longer needs us.
The Minister of International Trade returned from China earlier this year raving about China as a crucial emerging market for Canadian business. When will the CIDA minister get the hint that China is now ready for trade, not aid?