Madam Speaker, in the previous Parliament, multiple Conservative MPs, including the then minister of trade, assured parliamentarians that CETA does not hinder Canada's ability to regulate and legislate in areas such as the environment, culture, safety, health, and conservation. If that is the case, why did the trade minister renegotiate CETA's ISDS measures? She makes the same claims today about ICS that the Conservatives made about ISDS. It all rings a little hollow, so which is it?
The Liberals like to have it both ways, but at the end of the day, there is nothing progressive about their trade agenda. It is just like the Conservatives'. Now that the Liberals have moved from opposition to government, gone are their concerns about the impact of trade deals on prescription drugs and on governments' abilities to regulate.