Mr. Speaker, if I had more time to elaborate on how these agreements affect democracy and how they threaten democracy, I would have turned to chapter 11, the investor state dispute settlement mechanism, as a prime example.
The things the member for Burnaby—Douglas listed, and one can list others, are basically a list of public policy options or public policy decisions that democratically elected governments have made in the past or could make in the future which could now be challenged through this investor state dispute settlement mechanism.
Not only do those decisions then become challenged, but we have this chill effect whereby governments never make other possible decisions because they are afraid of this mechanism.