Mr. Speaker, I do not know one liberalizing trade agreement or one free trade agreement that the NDP has ever supported.
The fact is that NAFTA and the FTA have created remarkable wealth for Canada.
The NDP should be less ideological and more economically competent and modernize its economic thinking. The fact is that social democrat parties around the world have come forward. We just need to look at the British Labour Party. Countries like Sweden have been able to embrace social progress and economic literacy. The NDP is the only social democrat party in the world that still clings to the globophobic, socialist Luddite myths of the past.
It is time for the NDP to modernize its policies and maybe at some point, 20, 30, or 40 years in the future, be a reasonable alternative for Canadians.