Madam Speaker, I would like to compliment the member for London West for a good maiden speech in the House. I welcome him to the House and also welcome him to the Standing Committee on International Trade. I look forward to working with him and others members of the committee on trade issues.
I will ask him a polite question, given that he had a polite speech, about the lack of a buy Canada act. I am getting some heckling, but I have tried to build a relationship here and I would hope the Conservative members would allow me to do that across the aisle.
We have been talking about the fact that the buy America act is legal. We know that it is under NAFTA. We know that President Obama is following his own mandate. Does he not feel that a buy Canada act to build Canadian jobs would be effective in Canada?