Dawn Black at the National Defence Committee

On February 6th, 2007. See this statement in context.

February 6th, 2007 / 4:10 p.m.

NDP

Dawn Black NDP New Westminster—Coquitlam, BC

By using the national security exemption, your government has upset many of the provinces, because that means this agreement is not subject to the agreement on internal trade.

I think the agreement on internal trade was brought into being after the CF-18s went to Quebec and not Winnipeg.

So I want to ask, why was the decision made to have the national security exemption? What was the process that was used to arrive at that decision?

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