Mr. Speaker, when speaking about the Canada-EU trade agreement, the Liberal trade critic said:
We have been supportive of the deal from the start. It’s important to say this is a great step, but also we really need to start seeing some details. At some point though we need to see what it is we’re actually supporting.
It begs this question. Why is it that the Liberals are willing to support trade deals before they even read them or see the details?
My question is about democracy. My hon. colleague mentioned favourably that Korea is a democracy, yet the Liberals supported a free trade agreement with Honduras, where the democratically elected government was overthrown by a coup, where journalists are regularly killed, where the LGBT community is persecuted, and where human rights are brazenly violated. They also supported the China FIPA, which has all sorts of problems in many other respects as well.
I am just wondering if my hon. colleague could name a single country with which the Liberals would not support signing a trade agreement.