Mr. Speaker, the second petition is primarily from residents in the Parksville area of British Columbia but also from residents in Nanaimo.
With respect to a Privy Council decision, the petitioners ask that the government decline to ratify the Canada-China investment treaty as it is lopsided and would provide more markets to China than our Canadian businesses would have access to. This treaty would lock us in for up to 31 years and allow Chinese state-owned enterprises to sue Canada.