Madam Chair, of course, it is a well-known fact that the NDP would never support any free trade agreement deal with any country. It will always put barriers to them, despite the fact that there is overwhelming evidence that free trade around the world is beneficial to all humanity. The WTO has irrefutable evidence, but that evidence the NDP will never accept.
He is talking about giving away sovereignty. Nobody is giving away sovereignty here. What we are talking about is an agreement between two countries that is beneficial to them and to us, as are all agreements that have been made by Canada.
It is amazing how the NDP says we have been a free trading nation all our lives, but for some reason they forget the fact that all the free trading that they were talking about, before governments came into play, was free trade.
The free trade agreement also allows us to set standards that are important to Canadians, the labour code, human rights, all these things, and to work with these countries to ensure that Canadian values are also there.
It is of importance to Canadian values to have a free trade agreement. I do not understand why the NDP would not agree to that.