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Treaties Act negotiation process externally. It is essential that this happen. It is important that this occur partly because of some of the misinformation and mistruths about trade agreements that are utilized by anti-trade individuals and organizations, for example with the MAI or previous
June 8th, 2000House debate
Scott BrisonProgressive Conservative
Natural Gas Madam Speaker, that is part of the free market economy. The NDP are not anti-business or anti-trade. As long as it is fair business on a level playing field that will benefit Canadians, the NDP will support. Thousands of jobs are tied to the natural gas resource sector
June 14th, 2000House debate
Supply . We ran our campaign against the FTAA on that very concept, fair trade not free trade. There is a world of difference. We need to put forward very clearly that the our position is not one that is anti-trade and pro-protectionism. It is not a position that is anti-internationalism
April 24th, 2001House debate
Supply to say that we are anti-trade. We have heard that today in this room. We are not anti-trade. We are pro-trade. We are pro-community. We want our voices to count through our democratically elected government. We understand that we are inextricably linked globally by our
May 1st, 2001House debate
Wendy LillNDP
Canada-Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act . It is about destroying the democratic spirit of those outside the fence as resolutely as the police were committed to protecting the mass of concrete steel and barbed wire. Critics of mine and the critics of other protesters have tried to say that New Democrats are anti-trade
October 1st, 2001House debate
Wendy LillNDP
Softwood Lumber be able to stop this group of small anti-trade very closely held landowners from being able to inflict this kind of damage on my constituency, on our country and on the consumer of the U.S. There is however one small light in the tunnel. President George W. Bush has assigned former
November 6th, 2001House debate
Jim AbbottCanadian Alliance
Canadian Livestock Industry with government members in condemning the United States Senate for adopting a protectionist, anti-trade, anti-science based assessment motion which effectively keeps the border closed. As I stated a moment ago, the continued closure of the border is the result of a United States judge
March 8th, 2005House debate
Wayne EasterLiberal
International Trade committee that, because I'm on the board of three American organizations. We have a different vision of what North America must look like and what we need to hold on to. We are not anti-trade. We hope we continue to have wonderful trade relationships with the United States. But strong fences make good
May 1st, 2007Committee meeting
Maude Barlow
Agriculture committee , but the percentage is around 25%. How can Canada allow products from the U.S., our principal trading partner, to come in without any harmonization and without any restrictions? The Canadian government has issued regulations on BSE. These are anti-trade restrictions. They are preventing us from
November 26th, 2007Committee meeting
Michel Dessureault
International Trade committee want to reiterate the fact that was mentioned, that there seems to be this misconception that, specifically, people who raise questions about this potential free trade agreement are anti-trade. That's not the case. The Liberal Party historically has signed many free trade agreements
December 11th, 2007Committee meeting
Navdeep BainsLiberal
International Trade committee way anti-trade. Beyond all the issues of tariffs and schedules, a trade deal remains, at its heart, an international agreement between two governments--a statement of commitment and belief in each other as economic and political partners. So does Canada want to endorse the Uribe
April 30th, 2008Committee meeting
Gerry Barr
Forestry Industry Mr. Speaker, Canadians know the consequences of the NDP's plans for Canada. Its anti-trade policies, its attacks on the energy sector and its plans to tear up the softwood lumber agreement would put Canadian jobs right across this country at risk. There are over 270,000 jobs
November 21st, 2008House debate
David AndersonConservative
Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement Act regarding human rights. I think they have spoken the truth. Their words have been eloquent, as well as compelling. I would like to speak to a possible solution. New Democrats are not anti-trade. Trade is good, but the trade we want to see is fair trade. In question period, I have
June 1st, 2009House debate
Megan LeslieNDP
Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act committed against unionized workers are among Colombia's foremost human rights challenges. Colombia is the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. A deep seated anti-trade union culture exists in Colombia both within government and among entrepreneurs who see
October 5th, 2009House debate
International Trade committee place. It's not about Canada; it's about anti-trade in the United States. Unfortunately, this has become caught up in some of that.
November 5th, 2009Committee meeting
Carlo Dade