Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to my colleague's comments about the importance of signing this free trade agreement with Honduras.
I would like to put on the record, again, that many of the New Democrats, in fact all of them, are against trade. Specifically, the member for Dartmouth—Cole Harbour said that trade agreements are job destroying, and the NDP member for British Columbia Southern Interior has written that free trade agreements threaten the very existence of our nation.
I think it is important to note that the NDP does not understand how trade can lift people out of poverty and promote human rights and provide security.
I wonder if my colleague would comment on how he feels this free trade agreement would improve investment, increase job creation in Honduras, and here, as well as lifting the Honduran people out of some of the difficulties they are currently experiencing.