Madam Speaker, we voted against the Ukraine free trade agreement because they tried to impose a carbon tax in a trade agreement for the first time ever. I read every trade agreement we have. Carbon pricing and carbon leakage are not in a single one of them. They were trying to put a carbon tax in a trade agreement with a country at war. It was a terrible thing to do; that is why I voted against it.
On the renegotiation, I have read the book by the United States lead negotiator. The member should read it. In it, with respect to their great negotiating tactics, he states that, on August 27, they had an arrangement with only a few hours to spare. However, the entire Canadian delegation was absent because of the cold U.S.-Canada relationships that went from June until August 22, when a new United States-Mexico trade agreement was signed.
Canada was not at the table for three months of those negotiations because of the absolute and utter incompetence of the Liberal Prime Minister and government. The Americans had a trade agreement and said that Canada could sign it or not. If that is negotiating well, they need to go back to school.