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International Trade committee  I think it would have to be a lot lower. I think we would have to have a negotiated conversation about what that would be. Victoria at the moment, like many municipalities, is facing a really significant crisis in infrastructure development and repair. We're really behind the e

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  Yes. You're right.

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  I think the majority of our council would probably agree if that number was higher. Certainly, there are elements within our council who would be opposed to CETA in principle, but there's the majority and that's why I think our resolution ultimately, when it was crafted in the

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  No, and I don't know the answer to that question because we haven't been able to have the conversation. That's the point.

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  I'd be able to answer that question if I had a better look at it, but from what we think we understand, we're concerned about some of the risks associated with what we think are potential possibilities for legal costs associated with the response to challenges from local decision

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  Yes. That's absolutely true. It's really important for me to say that we have a very eclectic council that is not particularly swayed in one direction or the other. If we were able to say that all of the concerns we have raised have been absolutely refuted, and be able to look a

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  If you want me to go back to my city and give them reassurance about the efficacy of all that you've just said, the best thing you can do is give me the agreement to take with me.

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  I'd like to see the agreement and take it home with me, and then I'd be able to say to all my colleagues around the table, who are, by the way, of very different political stripes, that our concerns are unjustified. Just give me the agreement, and I'll be a happy person.

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  That's good to hear.

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  It's great. We love the federal government when it comes to infrastructure.

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  Absolutely. Much more than, I have to say, our provincial counterparts who gave us nothing.

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  Thank you for pointing that out.

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto

International Trade committee  I did. Wow, you've looked up my background. That's so exciting.

February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting

Marianne Alto