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You can take out energy and some of the basic raw materials — for example, softwood is not heavily dependent — but most of the growth of the trade subsequent to NAFTA is exposed to these kinds of considerations.

Ms. Christine Hunt (Community Fisheries Development Centre ): I spoke to the minister I worked for, Corky Evans, just before this meeting and he basically said the same thing as John has said: that Fred Mifflin made a commitment to help the coastal communities and the displaced fishermen when his plan was implemented; the province doesn't want to clean up the mess the Mifflin plan has caused on the west coast; and we're in total dismay that we have this mess out there and the federal government is now not coming through with Mifflin's commitment to our community.

Mr. Weir, I'd like to ask you why you think the Conservatives have refused to implement something that is common sense and that has a broad degree of consensus on both the industry side and the labour side.

For the past five years everybody in Quebec has been saying that common sense requires Quebec to be responsible for manpower, but the federal side is still hemming and hawing, trying to ensure that it will have some control over it, while it really falls under the jurisdiction of Quebec.