International Trade committee  Your chance to influence this--and as for what's going on over there, I don't think anyone in this room would disagree, it's flat out wrong--is best right now. That's what we're saying. As for the criticism, Mr. Keddy, just to respond, the initial part of your question assumes

International Trade committee  The benefit was for the producers in Jordan to have duty-free access into the U.S. market. But I think what we're saying is that.... Of course, we want the Canadian worker to do well, too; we have 356,000 members here. But for your time, your opportunity, and the opportunity to c

International Trade committee  We've asked for a review. We have also worked to pressure the companies operating there, with some success. But we also don't want to see the 30,000 guest workers, who borrowed from loan sharks and spent all of the money they had to get to that country, thrown out of Jordan. Beca

International Trade committee  That's right.

International Trade committee  Yes. If I may, before I answer that, let me just say that Mr. Casey here works for an industry that's represented by the United Steelworkers, so we're here today understanding the kinds of things he's saying and the importance of products being sold elsewhere to help our members

International Trade committee  Let me respond further. I think I see what your question is. You have factories owned by Chinese and Indians and others outside the country of Jordan. You have the work being performed by Bangladeshis and Chinese and Filipinos, who are trafficked in, and who sometimes have to s

International Trade committee  I think there is support in the U.K. There is support in Germany. There is support in Australia for what we're doing. Look, there's--

International Trade committee  Sorry?

International Trade committee  I think that's a wonderful first step, yes.

International Trade committee  Merci. I want to be clear. We didn't support the trade deal just to help Jordanian workers; we supported the trade deal to try to create a level playing field among all countries, which is the way we think trade should be. Trade should be level, with the rules applying the same

International Trade committee  Well, you have a unique opportunity. When this happened in the U.S., we had no idea that all the workers in these factories would be Indian and Chinese. We thought it was a Jordanian deal. Just as when you do a trade deal with somebody, you don't expect them to import the worker

International Trade committee  With all due respect, I don't think that argument holds, simply because you can't say that since everybody else is wrong and everybody else is doing it, then we should too.

International Trade committee  Yes, sir. You asked for my opinion on this. What I'm saying is that you have a unique opportunity and a unique position. Had we known what was going to happen, we never would have supported this, okay? We supported it only because we took it at face value. We took it with the l

International Trade committee  Thank you. I'll try to talk a little more slowly. I'll read a short statement from the union, but just for a bit of background, when Bill Clinton left office in the United States, one of the final things he did was to negotiate the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement. A lot of orga