Madam Speaker, that is very hard to understand and justify, especially since this provision was removed from the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, or CUSMA, even though it had originally been in the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, with the United States and Mexico. It is hard to understand and explain how a government can want to censor itself so much or set back democracy and political sovereignty in favour giving for-profit companies the right to make money. That is very hard to understand.
At the Standing Committee on International Trade, my New Democrat colleague and I pressed the government in an attempt to understand. The minister is very good at avoiding our questions when she appears in committee. This has happened many times. As my colleague knows, when it came time for the clause-by-clause study of the bill, the NDP and I voted against the investor-state dispute settlement system. He can count on me to fight any such potential provisions in future agreements, including the agreement with the United Kingdom that will replace this temporary agreement.