Paul Dewar at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On May 28th, 2013. See this statement in context.

May 28th, 2013 / 12:25 p.m.

NDP

Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON

This question is to both of you.

I should have declared a conflict of interest at the beginning, Mr. Chant—that your company helps feed my family. But Tahmina and the other kids help clothe our family as well, and that's why this is personal to all of us, I guess.

I want to build on what you were just saying. Is there not a role here for government, then?

Your most recent example, Mr. Chant, was of working with the embassy on the ground. Would you not say, as Mr. MacDonald was saying, that there is a role for our Canadian embassies wherever we have a proliferation of trade deaths around the world?

Is there not a role here for our government representatives to work with Canadian industry on the ground and with other players—you mentioned the United Food and Commercial Workers and the CLC—to help do that job?

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