Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, this is what it is. We tried to go inside. There's only one way to go inside the reserve, and then you need to go a little bit on their mining road, and they just blocked the access. So I sent the federal police to try to gain access, but the company opposed and the paperw

Foreign Affairs committee  It would help in the sense that if I could apply Argentine law to these companies, I would never be able to do what you can do with this law—that is, to hurt the heart of the company, which is the finance, the economic part. The Supreme Court of Argentina cannot sentence to stop

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely. This is a value added. You control your part and we control our part. This is how I see this, basically.

Foreign Affairs committee  I would not say so. When you define “colonialism”, it's to override the jurisdiction and maybe take over the resources of a country, and this is not what the law is about, as I understand it. I think this law is about controlling how and in which companies the government invests

Foreign Affairs committee  No, no. I'm sorry I didn't express myself very clearly. It's not my language. As in many developing countries in the world—and I will set Congo aside, because really Congo is a different situation—those countries that are in the process of constructing democracy, in Argentina ou

Foreign Affairs committee  No, but they could have done that already, without the application of the bill, because there are many countries with laws that are less severe than Canadian laws. So they could have said that.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think so, because these companies then would not be able to receive taxpayer money from Canadians. If I were a company, I would think twice about that, because I understand that if I were to leave Canada, then I would not be able to receive the pension funds from the Cana

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not an expert on Canadian law. My background is that I'm a lawyer, but I'm not an expert in Canadian law.

Foreign Affairs committee  I can talk about some of the projects, but the amount will be around.... Let me check the numbers; I have them here. I want to give you exact numbers.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's around $8 billion.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, it's American dollars.

Foreign Affairs committee  That varies, because the projects have different phases. I cannot tell you for sure. For example, on the Veladero Pascua Lama project, the company says it will hire around 3,000 people.

Foreign Affairs committee  That doesn't mean that all of them will be Argentinian.

Foreign Affairs committee  It could be.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, I speak French. The translation is not very good, so I couldn't understand one of the questions. Can you repeat your question, please? If you can do so in French, that's fine.