Quite frankly, Mr. Speaker, I do not think the Liberal Party has to take any lessons in international trade from the Conservative government or the NDP opposition. All we need to do is look at the Liberal years in government. There were huge trade surpluses. In fact, in the last year of the Liberal government, there were billions of dollars in trade surplus. There consistently were trade surpluses. It is only today through the current Conservative government that we have seen trade deficits, which have been very damaging in terms of the economic performance of Canada. We could and should be doing a lot more.
Yes, changes to regulations can be a good thing in many different ways if they are done properly, but I would not necessarily make the member's point, given that the government has turned a huge trade surplus into a huge trade deficit, as the one that is going to resolve it, especially if he believes the only way to resolve it is to change regulations. It is going to take a lot more of an effort to make back the gains that have been lost by the government.