Mr. Speaker, the clarification of the clause came yesterday from the B.C. supreme court. It is a threat to our environment.
The government is so exclusively preoccupied with protecting the commercial interests of corporations it ignores the fact that yesterday's Metalclad decision increases the cost of protecting our environment, in this case by over $16 billion U.S. to ban a toxic waste dump.
How could the government maintain the myth that NAFTA chapter 11 is not a threat to our environment?