Foreign Affairs committee  No, in fact, that's simply an option. In our treaties, investors can generally choose to use different types of arbitral rules, including the Convention and ICSID rules or the rules of the supplementary mechanism. That will be the investor's choice, whereas investors currently ca

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't know what bad treaties you're referring to, but all our treaties contain a reference to ICSID, in addition to other dispute settlement mechanisms. Once we've signed, they will have access to those rules.

Foreign Affairs committee  No.

Foreign Affairs committee  Currently, a foreign investor cannot sue either the Canadian government or the Quebec government under the ICSID rules, since we are not members of the Convention. Once that is the case, under the mechanism containing the ICSID clause—the clause referring to the dispute resolutio