Madam Speaker, I listened to our Conservative colleague say that when we trade with a country and that country's revenues increase, ultimately the lives of people who face hunger or other problems are improved. I disagree, because often it is not the wealthiest countries that take the best care of their people.
How can we trust a country that is assassinating union members and displacing whole populations?
I travelled to Colombia and found that many people are being displaced from their farms so that certain mining companies can take over the land.
How can the government think that with increased revenues, this country will better redistribute wealth to the poor? I do not believe it.
I was looking at the statistics recently, and they show that—