Mr. Speaker, I am sure the Prime Minister could find ways to lock this in if he wanted to.
My question is for the Minister for International Trade who knows about the upcoming summit in Miami with respect to the free trade area of the Americas.
Given that at one time a couple of years ago in committee he admitted to me that chapter 11, the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, was inadequate and probably should be done away with, why does he persist in agreeing to a text which includes an investor-state dispute settlement mechanism? Why does he not just abandon this bad idea and show some leadership in getting rid of it?