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View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
I'm sorry; I want to answer it. I'm not allowed to? Can we do a deal that we just have two more minutes?
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Lib. (ON)
Randy, if one of your colleagues wants to carry on with that question, I'm happy to answer it.
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
That's a great question. I think it's very important for all of us. Although we devote a lot of our time, necessarily, to talking about the finer points of trade policy, it's our job as politicians to be talking about bringing home those benefits to specific people, in particular to the constituents we represent.
Maple Leaf Foods is a great example. It's a company that I know you talk to a lot. I talk to them often, and they are very interested in the opportunities that CETA presents. They have offices all around Mississauga. Here's what Rory McAlpine of Maple Leaf Foods has to say about CETA:
The EU is obviously a very large, affluent market with a strong investment presence in Canada and vice versa. If you think about how, increasingly, global trade is built around intra-company supply chains or coordinated supply chains globally, you can see how a free trade agreement really can build up investment that’s in both respective jurisdictions.
They see some really big opportunities, and I think that should be exciting for your constituents, because it translates into jobs and growth.
I want to highlight one other aspect of CETA, speaking to you personally. I believe, just as I am Ukrainian-Canadian, that you are Portuguese-Canadian?
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Your wife is Ukrainian. I think one of the elements of CETA that is exciting for a lot of Canadians is that very many Canadians trace their roots to one of the 28 member states of the European Union, and this is a real opportunity for all of those Portuguese-Canadian business associations, Italian-Canadian business associations, etc., to build those human ties into economic ties. I think that is going to be very exciting for a lot of Canadians and a lot of your constituents.
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Lib. (ON)
Hey, is that cash for access?
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View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Oh, my God. I can't do all that in 15 seconds.
The only thing I will say is I do want to assure everyone that while I am confident people on that side of this table will not agree with every single thing that I or my government do, I want to assure you all I'm a farm girl and I know how to keep my foot on the gas pedal. We are doing that. We're driving very hard on our trade agenda, including with the United States. We understand the importance of that relationship and we are working very hard to deepen it.
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Lib. (ON)
First of all, it is appropriate to point out that the NDP supported the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement, whose ISDS provisions are considerably less progressive than the ones in CETA, so there may be some questions that should be asked inside the NDP.
As I've said, I am extremely proud of the improvements to the ISDS that we've made in CETA. It creates an investment dispute settlement process that is the most progressive in the world. CETA is an agreement that has been supported by all 28 European member states, including those led by socialist governments.
When it comes to the further development of the investment dispute settlement process, as I've said, there are many elements inside the CETA agreement that are intentionally open-ended. We are building—
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Lib. (ON)
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Lib. (ON)
What is the case, as I've said, is that the investment dispute settlement is the element of the agreement that is national competency. It is not the part that will be provisionally applied if and when the agreement is ratified by the European Parliament.
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Lib. (ON)
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Lib. (ON)
After that happens, the agreement will be provisionally applied, and 98% will come into effect. Then it is the turn of the national parliaments to study the agreement and to vote on whether the remaining element is then applied.
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