Mr. Speaker, the member asked me why I personally was against free trade. I never was. I have absolutely no idea where the member got this idea.
In fact, it was the result of a former Conservative prime minister, Brian Mulroney, having read the Liberal MacDonald report advocating free trade, that he decided to like free trade. Before that he was opposed to it.
This idea that because some individual Liberals were opposed to free trade all Liberals were opposed to free trade is absolutely ridiculous. Some of the best negotiations on the free trade agreement came in under Liberal governments, so this is ludicrous.
I was referring to the softwood lumber deal. A report and an analysis done by the Free Trade Lumber Council stated said that the softwood lumber deal was a political deal and was not in the best interests of Canadians.