Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. member for his intervention. We sit on the trade committee together. We are able to question witnesses there, and that is what I wanted to ask the member about.
When we were having witnesses come and present on this initially, I think all of us who were not in government were quite surprised to hear about the lack of consultations with stakeholders. We heard from a number of organizations and labour groups that there was not a rigorous consultation. Government officials were there to answer questions, but that was about the extent of it.
Can the member maybe speak to that, on his experience of hearing from stakeholders at committee?