Mr. Speaker, maybe before we get to particular numbers, it is important to speak about this. There seems to be some confusion among my colleagues from other parties about the NDP position on free trade, which is surprising because we have been quite consistent for a long time on free trade.
Opposition to particular free trade deals is not the same as being opposed to trade. The NDP has always understood the important role that trade plays in the Canadian economy. It is something we support. However, there is a difference between that and supporting particular deals and provisions in them, which we do oppose, like chapter 12 in the TPP that will allow all the worst abuses of the temporary foreign worker program, which the Liberal government said it would fix, over the Harper era to be recreated in a way that gives the government less control over stopping those problems than it had with with the TFW program. We oppose provisions like that, not trade.