Mr. Speaker, I compliment the trade minister and this government on what an excellent job they have done to get out there and try to find new markets.
How exactly would Canada, with some 35 million people, grow our economy if we were to do as the opposition wishes and only trade with ourselves? I do not understand that. What we are trying to do is eliminate barriers and tariffs, things that would create access to markets where,in some cases, our companies are already trading but on an unfair basis.
We are looking at trying to develop rule-based trading where our companies could compete on a fair ground, where they could go out and export our products and do a better job, which means they can employ more people for Canada.
I would like the minister to comment on where exactly we would sell our goods if we could not sell them to other places in the world.