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International Trade committee  We are currently conducting international negotiations on sectors that still lack regulations. I am thinking of companies such as Google, Facebook and Netflix. Let's take the example of Netflix, which has many subscribers in Canada and in Quebec. We know that Netflix does not pay the provincial tax in Quebec.

May 11th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean Dalcé

International Trade committee  Such a mechanism in a trade agreement makes no sense to us. Countries like Canada, the United States or Japan are developed countries that have very mature legal systems. In that case, why have a mechanism that does not take legal systems into account? This makes no sense to us at all.

May 11th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean Dalcé

International Trade committee  All of the organizations share that opinion. One of the fundamental problems with this trade agreement is the broader investor-state dispute settlement mechanism. Why is this mechanism necessary if not to grant greater powers to multinationals at the expense of democratically elected governments?

May 11th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean Dalcé