Mr. Speaker, I know that the Liberal Party members finally want to start participating in the debate, so I am happy to have the attempted three questions from my hon. colleague.
He said that he was listening intently to my speech, but I guess he missed that last quote from a professor from the Department of Economics at York University, who said that people may make the argument that this free trade agreement and its quick implementation would actually help the poor people in Honduras, but really it is just a PR tactic that would not really help the people of Honduras.
Let me give members another quote. This one is from Pablo Heidrich, an economist at the North-South Institute. He said the Honduran government:
...needs a certain level of pressure so that the government becomes more responsive to wider social demands and it stops being sort of a committee that administers the gains of a very limited group of people.
As the member mentioned, these people are the drug lords and the oligarchs in the country.
Honduras is not a large trading partner for this country. We need—