International Trade   Canadians and our economy. In fact, he asks Americans not to do business with Canada. The NDP is not only anti-trade and not only anti-investment; now it is anti-science and anti-common sense. It has no credibility on trade.

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Sandhu has brought up what the Conservative government believes in, and I guess it is very clear that we are pro-trade. I don't want to say what their belief is. Everybody knows that the NDP is not pro-trade for sure; it's anti-trade. But I'll tell you

International Trade  Mr. Speaker, one in five Canadian jobs is generated through exports. While our government is engaged in the most ambitious pro-trade plan in Canadian history, the New Democrats are stuck in their archaic, anti-trade ideology. Here is what the NDP's trade critics have said. One

Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada   by our government and even sent an anti-trade mission to Washington to advocate against Canadian jobs. Yesterday it tried to claim that it was standing up for Canadian taxpayers, but the NDP has a plan to impose a new $20-billion carbon tax on everything. The NDP leader's new job

Foreign Investment   Canada Act. This is an Investment Canada Act question, but there is an undercurrent in the member's statement about trade protectionism and, quite frankly, some of the bad old days of NDP policy in which it is simply anti-trade on everything. Let us try to move beyond that type

New Democratic Party of Canada  Mr. Speaker, our government is committed to an ambitious free trade agreement with the European Union, an agreement that is expected to boost Canada's economy by the equivalent of $1,000 for every Canadian family. Shamefully, the NDP and its anti-trade allies consistently

International Trade   of the Opposition, the OLO. The NDP staffers union joining such a campaign is further proof of the NDP's ideological anti-trade agenda, an agenda that not long ago sent an anti-trade mission to Washington to lobby against Canadian jobs. On the positive side, since forming government, we have

Foreign Investment   and that the submissions made by the parties be available to the public. It is unfortunate that anti-trade activists have continued to spread such misinformation about this agreement.

Foreign Investment   deal without any scrutiny. At the other end of the spectrum, the other extreme, the NDP members would virtually block everything. They are even against NAFTA. They are anti-trade. This is not responsible. We are open for foreign investment.

Agriculture and Agri-Food   exports by some $150 million annually. Unlike the anti-trade NDP, our government continues to open up markets and provide opportunities for our producers.

Business of Supply   anti-trade mission to Washington to lobby against certain energy infrastructure projects. I do not think anyone has really talked in detail today about the cost of capital and how much it actually costs to develop the oil sands. In order for major infrastructure projects to go

Business of Supply  The member is trying to heckle me from across the way, but he knows that in 13 years they never turned down a single proposal that was made. We can be just as certain that were the NDP to get in power, it would be extremely rare to ever see one approved. We have heard this anti

Business of Supply  . They need do no more than take a look at Saskatchewan and where it sat for decades as they applied their principles. They come with many disguises, but the reality is that they always come back to being anti-trade and anti-development, and we certainly see that here today as well. I

Foreign Investment   investors have long had those same legal protections in Canada. This agreement will give Canadians equal protections when investing abroad. What does the NDP have against investment? What does it have against trade? When will that party stop being an anti-trade party?

Foreign Investment  Mr. Speaker, the real form of disrespect that we can see is from NDP members. They say that they care about foreign investment when they do not. They are against foreign investment. They are anti-trade. They propose putting a carbon tax of $21.5 billion on the shoulders