Mr. Speaker, I would say that topic is a speech in and of itself, but, first and foremost, it is about democracy and the protection of democracy. One of the things that is important to name and combat is this pretense that somehow free markets go hand in hand with democracy. It is something that Liberals and Conservatives in this House do and have been doing for a long time. It has been done on the world stage by neo-conservatives and neo-liberals in other countries as well.
Often what ends up happening in free-market scenarios is that we get a serious accumulation of private power that subverts the power of democratically elected governments to make decisions in the public interest. Where there are some really free-market situations in the world outside of Canada, places where there is less regulation, we do not see a lot of freedom. Instead, we see a lot of exploitation.
If markets are going to work, they have to be regulated in an appropriate sense. Far too often, what these kinds of trade agreements have done is deregulate, and try to consolidate that deregulation by keeping democratically elected governments from imposing any kind of future regulation. Sometimes it gets in the way of regulating new types of things, and we are seeing that with the Internet. There are some pretty draconian provisions in CUSMA—