Madam Speaker, what a bunch of garbage from my former colleague on the agriculture committee. That is partisan rhetoric.
As far as what happened in the depression, we should study history and look at the fact that it was a lack of infrastructure and other factors. In regard to COOL, country of original labelling, of course I agree with the hon. member that we have to fight this and we will be doing so on the agriculture committee.
There is a difference between encouraging a policy to buy Canadian and supporting a buy American policy. It is not the same thing. We can encourage a Canadian policy and have fair trade with our neighbours. There is nothing wrong with that. It happens back and forth and we have done it and we will continue to do so in this country.
This knee-jerk reaction and the comment about dogma do not make any sense. We can still be nationalists. We can still want the best for our country and try to encourage more jobs in Canada without completely opening up our borders and letting those corporations take over, which they are doing. I have pointed it out in agriculture and we know it is happening in other industries, that if we let them take over completely, eventually we will have no control.
There has to be a fine line drawn and surely it has to be based on what is in the best interests of Canadians.