Of course, Minister, you know that C-18 is about implementing the Canada-U.K. trade continuity agreement which, itself, is about a five-page document. Fully one page of that document is devoted to ISDS provisions and trying to massage the ISDS provisions of CETA. It struck me as strange that a government with a principled objection to investor-state dispute settlement clauses would have spent 20% of the effort drafting this trade agreement on investor-state dispute settlement clauses, which is why I ask the question: Does the government have a principled objection to investor-state dispute settlement clauses in trade agreements?
On February 22nd, 2021. See this statement in context.