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Committee Evidence - CIIT-49
2011-03-22
Lee Richardson - 9:35
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Jean-Yves Laforest (Saint-Maurice—Champlain)
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Mr. Chair, the Bloc Québécois is going to support this motion.
But, if Mr. Julian agrees, I would like to make a friendly amendment to the French version. Rather than saying “que le Canada fasse valoir une réserve à l'égard du chapitre 11”, I suggest that we say “que le Canada se réserve un droit à l'égard du chapitre 11”. Do you agree with making this amendment, Mr. Julian?
I see that you agree. So the Bloc is in favour of the motion.
Contrary to what Ms. Hall Findlay has just said and although it would be interesting to look at the report we are going to prepare on AbitibiBowater, the fact remains that the public at large wants to preserve natural resources more and more. The public wants the government to take measures to defend and fully protect all natural resources, especially water. Rather than doing the same thing as the government did with the motion passed in 2007, I think we have an opportunity to provide the government with more guidance and point out that things are really going in that direction.
So we are going to fully support this motion and hope that it will receive unanimous support.
Thank you.
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Chapter 11, North American Free Trade Ag ...
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Lee Richardson - 9:57
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Jean-Yves Laforest (Saint-Maurice—Champlain)
2011-03-22 9:58
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Mr. Chair, from listening to everyone's arguments, I think we have to clarify some of the things that have been said. I feel that this motion is still important. Some think it is useless and are making arguments that are not necessarily true or well-founded, in my opinion. Mr. Keddy said earlier that there can be no negotiations on trading water under NAFTA. I think it is crystal clear that NAFTA is a general free trade agreement and that means that it applies to all goods and services that are not excluded. For example, hydroelectric production, military purchases, banks, telecommunications companies and products under supply management are all sectors that are specifically excluded from NAFTA. But nowhere in NAFTA is it written that water is excluded. So we have to be careful.
I think this really confirms what a number of stakeholders came here to tell us about AbitibiBowater. As I said earlier, it is not just them, but also the public at large who are telling us to be cautious because water has to be fully protected. And NAFTA is not protecting it.
But Mr. Julian's motion is definitely aimed at preserving natural resources, in particular water, in Canada and Quebec.
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Committee Evidence - CIIT-47
2011-03-08
Don Stephenson - 9:15
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Jean-Yves Laforest (Saint-Maurice—Champlain)
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Does that also mean that chapter 11 is useless if businesses have a remedy under international law anyway? Why was chapter 11 included in the NAFTA? Is it more to protect businesses or more to protect governments?
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Don Stephenson - 9:16
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Jean-Yves Laforest (Saint-Maurice—Champlain)
2011-03-08 9:16
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In international trade, are you responsible for the supervision or the verification of compliance with agreements under chapter 11? Is it the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade that has to oversee everything that comes under the NAFTA, the agreements, the expropriations?
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