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House Hansard - 237

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 23, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 237 - Oct/23/23
Hon. Mary Ng
  • Oct/23/23 12:23:58 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-57 
Mr. Speaker, the CPTPP is an excellent agreement and many Canadian firms and exporters have benefited. It is not just a good agreement because of its commercial success, but it also has some of those very high-quality provisions for the environment, for inclusiveness. As my hon. colleague will know, CPTPP colleagues around the table, who party to that agreement, make those decisions about accession together. We are very pleased that the first accession candidate is the United Kingdom, another of Canada's trading partners. We have just finished that very important work. No doubt we will continue to work, along with our partners, with all the other applicants for accession.
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Context: House Hansard - 237 - Oct/23/23
Mr. James Bezan
  • Oct/23/23 6:30:25 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-57 
Madam Speaker, this is one of the reasons that we should not be rushing through this free trade agreement. We need to take the time to look at it and study it. We just had it presented to us over the last few days. It needs to go to committee to allow stakeholders to comment on it. We need to make sure that such things as the economic impacts and environmental assessments are thoroughly debated to see whether they are in the interest of both Canadian exporters and Ukrainian importers, and vice versa.
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