Mr. Speaker, people who are watching sometimes have difficulty understanding complicated bills. I must admit that Bill C-53 is rather complex. It deals with the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States.
My question is for my colleague. The Bloc Québécois will support Bill C-53 so that disputes over bilateral agreements can be handled by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, which I think is a good thing.
Will my colleague agree that the problem does not lie in supporting an international dispute settlement centre, but in the fact that the conventions signed by the Government of Canada are often bad conventions?
Can my colleague promise in this House that his government will no longer sign bilateral treaties without first bringing them before Parliament for discussion with the elected members here in this House?