Mr. Speaker, those are interesting figures, but we cannot verify when they were released.
Last Friday, the Liberal government very proudly announced that we now have an interprovincial free trade agreement. They called it an historic agreement. I acknowledge that it is historic. It is an historic failure because it does not address what is important to Canadians. On many issues, it complicates the situation. Even worse, instead of helping the wine and beer industries, it just taxes them more, thanks to the Minister of Finance.
Why is the government refusing to free up the trade of beer and wine in Canada?