Mr. Speaker, you are familiar with the expression:
when nothing goes right, turn left.
I think that is what we need to do.
My colleague should know better. Trade is not only free trade. It can only be fair trade. That is very important.
The NDP wants balanced trade agreements that allow us to export our products and do business with the rest of the world while protecting workers' rights, local democracies, the environment and human rights. However, these things are never on the Conservatives' radar. My colleague was talking about a plan, but let us talk about facts, about what the Conservatives' plan is and the results of that plan.
Under the Conservative government, the trade surplus of $26 billion a year has become a trade deficit of $50 billion a year, which represents a sixfold increase in the trade deficit.
In my opinion, the Conservatives' plan is to have a race to the bottom while continuing to say that everything is fine.