Mr. Speaker, I certainly am honoured that you give me direction. I am getting there. When talking about agreements such as these, the government's credibility, integrity and competency are three factors that are also important to Canadians when they make their investments, which is why I was talking about that.
I can leave aside the Conservatives' mismanagement of the economy and talk about the scrapping of the visitor's tax rebate. It is totally related to these kinds of agreements. I cannot even begin to talk about how many small businesses have been hurt by this change. The tourism industry depended on that rebate. Because my riding of Newton—North Delta is so close to the border and has the closest port in British Columbia to southeast Asia--