This past Monday, May 29, the clerk of this committee circulated an email from a Global Affairs official who wrote,
Canada's most recent investment treaties (starting roughly 2000) include an exception where we maintain the full policy flexibility to discriminate on the basis of nationality in relation to licensing of fisheries and other fisheries related activities.
However, in your opening statement today you stated that the core commitments in an investment treaty include a commitment that:
Parties cannot discriminate against investors of the other Party based on their nationality, whether in comparison to Canadian investors or investors of a third country.
Please clarify what you mean by “discriminate”.