Mr. Speaker, if a foreign corporation does not fulfill its obligations, the government will take it to court. At any rate that is what the Minister of Industry replied to the member for St. John's South—Mount Pearl yesterday regarding the failure by United States Steel Corporation to honour the agreement in the takeover of Stelco, which is exactly the same type of situation Xstrata and Vale Inco find themselves in.
I have a very simple question. Why hide the agreement between the government and Xstrata and Vale Inco? Why not take Vale Inco and Xstrata to court?