Mr. Speaker, is the minister saying that he will be insisting as a condition of arriving at a conclusion to these negotiations that there be a core set of labour rights incorporated in the agreement pursuant to international conventions like those established by the ILO? Is that the position of the Canadian government? That is not what is understood to be the position of the Canadian government by the Canadian Labour Congress, for instance. Would he please say whether the position of the government has changed.
In the House of Commons on March 19th, 1996. See this statement in context.