Mr. Speaker, I would put the challenge to the member. If she genuinely believes exactly what she just said, then why does she support over a quarter of a billion dollars of trade between these two countries today? Is that not a legitimate question to be putting to the NDP? I would like to hear any one of the New Democrats explain why they would allow trade to grow between these two countries naturally.
This is what I say, which scares a lot of people: Canada is a trading nation. At the end of the day, if the New Democrats want to continue along that line, that is fine, but let us hear them be straightforward and then say that they want to ban trade with those countries. However, they are not prepared to say that. Why is that? I suspect it is because what they are really trying to do is to come up with a justification for their behaviour inside the chamber on the trade file, because they have never stood in their place inside the House and voted for a free trade agreement. They might try to say otherwise, but that is the reality.
It seems to me to be either a justification, or any one of the New Democrats would stand in his or her place and say that we should not have any trade with a country, if that is really and truly what the member and other members within the New Democratic Party believe.