Madam Speaker, my colleague from Abbotsford who sits behind me was the minister of international trade at the time, and he negotiated the free trade agreements. It was Conservative governments that negotiated most, if not nearly all, of the free trade agreements. What the Liberal government did was renew agreements that were originally negotiated by strong Conservative prime ministers who knew what they were talking about.
With regard to the economy, can my colleague explain why it is that we have to take all the GST Canadians pay, that is, $50 billion a year, and send it to New York and London for interest payments because the country's debt has doubled under the current government?