Dan Mazier on An Act to Implement the Protocol on the Accession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

In the House of Commons on March 12th, 2026. See this statement in context.

Bill C-13 An Act to Implement the Protocol on the Accession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific PartnershipGovernment Orders

March 12th, 2026 / 1:35 p.m.

Conservative

Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB

Mr. Speaker, it was a great speech, even though I had to listen to the translation for half of it.

I was surprised that the washing of the carcasses is still an issue in our trade agreement. I remember that before I was a parliamentarian here in 2019, that was a hot topic and basically a non-tariff barrier, so I am quite fascinated as to why it has not been resolved yet. I do not know what the Liberal government was doing all these years about trying to get that fixed.

Also, with respect to pensioners, I am surprised. We are talking about a trade agreement, but meanwhile we are asking the British government to increase taxes on people so they can pay pensioners over here more money. Is there an identical ask from the British government of our Canadian government in this trade agreement?

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