Mr. Speaker, the member talked about the general preferential tariff. There are so many falsehoods in his remarks that I do not even know where to begin, but let me start by saying that the current regime of general preferential tariffs that Canada has in place was negotiated in 1972, which was a very different year and time from 2013. The countries of India, China and Brazil were developing economies at that time. The GPT is a foreign aid program. As those countries have now developed, the Canadian taxpayer should not be subsidizing the manufactured goods of China, India and Brazil for import into Canada.
For example, the United States renegotiates its general preferential tariff agreements every two years. It is about time that we tackled that here in Parliament and under this government, so that Canadian taxpayers will pay less for goods and services and not more, as would be the case if the NDP were in power.