Paul Dewar at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On January 31st, 2008. See this statement in context.

January 31st, 2008 / 4:10 p.m.

NDP

Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I want to thank our guests for being here today.

I want to pick up on SEMA. SEMA is a tool we have. It came into place, I believe, in 1992. We've used it in cases like Haiti and the former Yugoslavia, and in this case, in Burma.

I'll just pose the question and then we can decide who should answer it.

We could use SEMA to cover previous investments. What I see here now is a prohibition on new investment. Am I correct in saying that SEMA could be used to go after existing investments before the date it came into force most recently?

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