Mr. Speaker, the second petition pursuant to Standing Order 36 is from a number of Canadians who are very concerned about the multilateral agreement on investment.
These Canadians are concerned that the House of Commons would be signing this without public debate. They are calling on the government and the House of Commons to debate this issue in the House publicly and to place the issue, if the Government of Canada decides to sign the MAI, before a national referendum for all the people of Canada to make that decision.
They are concerned about this because obviously the rights of Canadian citizens and the power of the Government of Canada would be greatly superseded by those foreign—