Mr. Speaker, before and after the government finally tabled its much overdue foreign policy statement, we had urged it to direct resources and personnel to pursuing our transatlantic opportunities and relationships. The government wrongly believed that it could just focus on the growing superparliament in Brussels. Yesterday, the people of France in a no vote rejected the European constitution.
Will the government now admit that areas important to Canada like trade, agriculture and security need to be pursued more on a nation by nation basis? Will it admit its analysis was flawed and do the follow-up?