So given those ties between investment and human rights, would you not say it would be pretty irresponsible for this committee if ever Parliament said, “You must study this bill further”, to not push immediately for an independent and partial and complete human rights assessment of what the impacts are in the agreement? There's no credibility on one side and pages and pages of documentation on the other. If there is any disagreement around how to proceed, should we not stop cold and do the independent, impartial human rights assessment?
On November 26th, 2009. See this statement in context.