International Trade committee  Thank you for those insights. We've known for a decade that the Harper Conservatives took a binary approach to trade agreements, where labour rights were always sacrificed. I don't believe labour unions are anti-trade, but of course they want comprehensive and progressive trade

Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement Implementation Act  , said that Canada did very well. He said it was a great deal. He was speaking, of course, for the Conservatives. For the NDP, there is no such thing as an NDP deal. The New Democrats are anti-trade. We could not make it good enough for them. There will always be an issue

International Trade committee   to Canada's relatively modest tariff levels. Secondly, we must ensure effective trade laws are established to remove structural barriers. I must echo concern noted by other groups appearing before the committee over the real concerns in some Mercosur markets of practices that are anti

International Trade committee  , it's proven true moving forward. The WTO has just become a body where you have some people who are anti-trade, and then some who want to progressively move along. It's a frustrating body. That's why bilaterals became important, because you couldn't rely on a multilateral like

Information & Ethics committee   say is a pretty radical direction in terms of their digital economy—and highly protectionist—is now going to include a piece in a chapter in a negotiation over which they have a whole bunch of radical anti-trade agenda items.... I like your hopefulness, but I don't share it based

Finance committee   knocking down government barriers so those goods can flow. This is not a free trade institution. If anything, it is an anti-trade institution. It will principally fund the export of Chinese goods westward, away from Canada, by building on the Silk Road strategy of the Chinese government

Foreign Affairs committee  . Obrador, from the Morena party, who is anti-trade. If you look at your timeline, and if we look at the fastest way we can get there, you have six months until negotiations end, on March 1, 2018. That will be within striking distance of the Mexican election. If the domestic election

Foreign Affairs committee   this. This really is troubling for the North American negotiations. In Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AMLO, you have a candidate of whom to say he's anti-trade or critical of trade is an understatement. He has also hinted that some of the reforms that Mexico has undertaken may be rolled back under

International Trade committee   are worried that they have to be seen to be doing the right thing. Global companies that are currently investing in the United States are very concerned about the proposed anti-trade measures because the facilities that are being built there are export-oriented. That brings us back

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act  -state provisions, and we need to make sure that we fix some of these. This is not about being anti trade. We have demonstrated repeatedly and supported trade agreements. However, we want to make sure that this is the best trade agreement for Canadians that it can possibly be, which

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act   Canada's entire GDP. In this period of slower economic growth and of growing protectionist and even anti-trade tendencies in many areas of the world, it is particularly important to implement agreements such as CETA. I will give an overview of CETA for all of my colleagues

Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act   colleagues in the Liberal and Conservative Parties like to spread misinformation that the NDP is somehow anti-trade because we point out the flaws in the agreements, like NAFTA and the TPP. We do not think a trade and investment agreement is appropriate with countries that have deeply

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act  . Then all of a sudden they showed up on the trade file. Now they know they will never have a chance to be in government, so they have retreated to where they have normally been, and that is basically anti-trade, anti-development, anti-growth. Anything that is positive, they are anti. I

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act  Madam Speaker, thank you for the opportunity to speak today on trade and the benefits of CETA. The reality is that anti-trade sentiments are rising around the world. There is an increase in protectionist attitudes in the U.S. and other countries previously seen as welcoming

Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act   believes strongly in an open global economy, and we will continue to champion an open society and open global trade. However, we cannot ignore the fact that many people are very concerned about trade globalization, which is blamed for job losses. We are now seeing the growth of anti