Mr. Speaker, it sounds a bit like the difference between marital bliss and adultery.
Let me remind the trade minister what he told a parliamentary committee just over a year ago. He said “We are not going to enter into those kinds of investor state dispute mechanisms in any other agreements and we're going to try to find a way to get this particular chapter out of NAFTA”.
Now we have the Prime Minister huffing and puffing about a democracy clause, while he shackles this and future governments with the threat of being sued by foreign corporations for responding to citizens.
What kind of democracy is that?