Mr. Speaker, as was the case with the Prime Minister's last trip to Vietnam, no one knew the goal of his trip to China. The Liberals talked about tourism, SMEs, and so on and so forth.
Last week, the Prime Minister's Office did everything in its power to try to deny that this was about free trade.
If the government intended all along to enter into negotiations for a free trade agreement with China, why did it try to hide that from Canadians?