International Trade committee  It goes back to the NDP member's comment about conditions in the north. This is Canada-wide, but we do have a very high proportion of aboriginal people in the north who enjoy section 35 rights. Canada recently signed on to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, w

International Trade committee  To respond to the question about alternative measures and perhaps to the Liberal member's question about how this would be replaced, I fundamentally do not understand why we need provisions to provide compensation to risk capitalists for changes in the capital environment, in the

International Trade committee  Can I speak to that briefly as well?

International Trade committee  I go back to the same comments I basically made before. Affordability and standards of living are an issue. We can improve affordability greatly by eliminating all environmental controls and allowing me to dump my toxic waste in the corner, but we don't do that. We regulate. Th

International Trade committee  Yes, but again you're characterizing it as grail growth and an ideal that is unfettered. What we have seen with the growth of trade and the increase in global economic activity is the development of a catastrophic situation of climate change and a threat to the very ecological fu

International Trade committee  I don't think that's exactly a fair characterization. I don't think that the opposition, principally to the ISDS provisions, is in contradiction to the interests of small businesses or large businesses. I think that there are babies and there's bathwater. You don't assume that th

International Trade committee  Good morning. My name is Craig Yeo, and I am a citizen presenter. I am also a member of the Council of Canadians and a local advocacy group, Alternatives North. I am generally presenting their positions, but I am also appearing as a citizen on my own behalf. I have filed a brief