Mr. Speaker, I have a lot of respect for this member. We sit on the PROC committee together. I think we get along great.
One of the issues that it is difficult for NDP and Liberal members to see eye to eye on is trade. It would appear as though the NDP members are against all trade, even though they say they are in favour of it, if it is a good agreement. However, in order for it to be a good agreement for the NDP members, they have to get absolutely everything they want. That is just not how a deal is made. A deal is based on compromise and negotiation, understanding that parties have to give a little sometimes in order to get something on the other end.
My question to the member would be as follows. This agreement is literally just to keep us going. It is to continue on. It says in the name of it that it is a continuation agreement to continue going with the agreement had from the former set-up when the U.K. was part of the European Union.
Why would the NDP, at the very least, not just support this continuity agreement in order to then have a discussion about what is to be expected in a new agreement?