Mr. Speaker, no, absolutely not.
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Prime Minister April 23rd, 2001
Mr. Speaker, no, absolutely not.
Summit Of The Americas April 23rd, 2001
Mr. Speaker, the proof that the federal government likes to promote discussion of such issues as free trade is based on the fact that the federal government paid $300,000 so that the parallel summit could be held, with support from the Government of Quebec as well. The federal government paid for this parallel summit. This is proof of our support for democracy.
Summit Of The Americas April 23rd, 2001
Mr. Speaker, I believe that members from every party were invited to attend the talks. In the case of Canada, the spokespersons are themselves elected members of parliament, while the leaders of the other countries all represent democratic countries.
Summit Of The Americas April 23rd, 2001
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister himself promoted democracy with the other countries from the Americas and he also praised the 25,000 people who expressed their point of view in a peaceful fashion, under the authority of union leaders. These people deserve praise for the peaceful manner in which they expressed their point of view.
Summit Of The Americas April 23rd, 2001
Mr. Speaker, I am sure the Prime Minister did not say anything about encouraging party leaders to hire spies against their opponents.
The declaration of Quebec City included a democracy clause under which any unconstitutional alteration of a state's democratic order will prevent participation of that state's government in the summit of the Americas process, including the free trade area of the Americas. The Prime Minister took the lead in getting an important consensus on this from the 34 sovereign countries.
Summit Of The Americas April 6th, 2001
Mr. Speaker, the question is based on an utterly false premise.
French will not be excluded from the summit of the Americas. At this summit, Canada will welcome the heads of all the countries from the Americas, and talks will be conducted in the four languages mentioned a few moments ago by my colleague.
Prime Minister April 6th, 2001
Mr. Speaker, the hon. member's premises are completely false. The Prime Minister had no interest in the golf club when he made these representations to the Business Development Bank of Canada.
I wonder why the hon. member did not mention Quebec's justice minister when he was talking about our anti-gang legislation. The PQ justice minister said “We now have a text that, at first blush, seems to be headed in the right direction”. Why no word of congratulation on this initiative?
Prime Minister April 6th, 2001
Absolutely not, Mr. Speaker. The answer is no. There is no breach of the code of ethics.
Prime Minister April 6th, 2001
Mr. Speaker, we have provided clear and specific information to this House many times.
The Prime Minister, the Minister of Industry and myself have tabled the documents requested by the Bloc Quebecois and the other opposition parties.
They will not recognize that there is no conflict of interest. They are only interested in carrying on their smear campaign and that is against the best interests of our country. Why do they not have any real interest in the real issues that concern Canadians?
Prime Minister April 6th, 2001
Mr. Speaker, there is no conflict of interest, as evidenced by the ethics counsellor's investigation and the RCMP report.
If the hon. member did her job seriously, she would congratulate us for introducing another anti-gang act, because this is a very important measure, but not for the hon. member, it would appear.