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View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
I can't imagine who you're talking about.
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
Okay. I'm very happy to talk about that.
We are very engaged with our TPP partner countries, and when I was in Lima 10 days ago I met with the U.S., Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, and Peru. That's seven of the other 11 countries.
As you know, the way the TPP is structured—
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
That may be the case, but I just want to be clear with everyone that the agreement itself doesn't exist without the U.S. There's no possibility of the 11 signing and it happening. A new agreement would have to be created. That's point one.
Point two is very important, and I think the Japanese ambassador to Canada has been speaking about this to journalists recently. Positions may change, but the president-elect has been very clear that he does not want to go ahead with the TPP. The next-largest country in that group is Japan. Japan, for the moment, has said that it wants to wait and see. Of course, as you know, Canada had begun negotiating a bilateral agreement with Japan when the TPP came in.
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
Lib. (ON)
—and the Japanese Prime Minister has said very clearly that without the U.S., the TPP is meaningless. That's the position of Japan at the moment.
We are in very close contact, and on Saturday I will again be seeing trade ministers from some of the other TPP countries. We're in very close contact. We're talking to our partners and we're waiting. We are talking to them and we're working on different scenarios.
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Lib. (ON)
Randy, if I could just say this, we do have bilateral agreements already in place—
Mr. Randy Hoback: Thank you, but I will say one thing, though—
Hon. Chrystia Freeland: —with many of those countries: Mexico, the U.S., Chile, Peru.
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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?
View Chrystia Freeland Profile
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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