Madam Speaker, I listened with great interest to the speech given by my hon. colleague from Sherbrooke. It left me somewhat confused, since a choice must be made between fair trade—advocated by the NDP—and this theory of free trade adopted by the Conservative and Liberal coalition. It works very well in school textbooks, but not so well in practice.
I do not understand the Bloc's position. Is it more in favour of fair trade, in other words, against agreements that cost jobs, like the European Free Trade Association agreement, which is going to destroy our shipbuilding industry? Is it against that sort of agreement, like the softwood lumber agreement? Unfortunately, the Bloc supported it, even though it caused the loss of thousands of jobs in Quebec. Does it advocate free trade in areas where the government has no role?
What is the Bloc Québécois' position?