Mr. Don Stephenson at the International Trade Committee

On March 8th, 2011. See this statement in context.

March 8th, 2011 / 9:40 a.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Trade Policy and Negotiations, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Agreed, but this was a payment for someone's assets that were expropriated by a government and that seems perfectly normal. The issue of the environmental remediation is a legally separate question--legally separate--from the question of the compensation for those assets. This wasn't Let's Make A Deal. This was a straight question--

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