Mr. Speaker, the Liberals signed the deal into the next stage, but it was already done when we left in 2014.
This has been a lost year for Canada with regard to trade opportunities. Last spring I called on the Liberal government to be ready to forge ahead with the progressive TPP signatories in the event the Americans got cold feet, which they have. Reports coming out of the APEC summit in Lima, Peru indicate that six countries, Mexico, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore, have committed to pursuing the TPP trade agreement with or without the United States.
Why are our Prime Minister and our Minister of International Trade MIA, allowing Canada to be left out of this important deal?