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OBSERVER QUESNEL - CARIBOO
SINCE 1908
Friday, November 9, 2012
VOL. 99 NO. 20
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Harris defends China-Canada treaty agreement AUTUMN MacDONALD Observer Reporter
The Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement was signed by Harper in Russia, Sept. 8 and tabled in the House of Commons in late September. Since then many opposition members have slammed government for “keeping Canadians in the dark about this Agreement’s grave implications for our sovereignty, security, and democracy,” Green Party leader, Elizabeth May said. May went on to say
With the final vote for the Canada-China investment treaty prompting massive push back, MP for CaribooPrince George, Dick Harris is addressing the agreement’s critics. “Prime Minister Harper and the Conservative Party has led Canada through the last three and a half years of recession,” Harris said. “And we’ve come out miles ahead of other countries.”
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Harper plans to sign off on what could be Canada’s most significant treat since NAFTA “without any public consultation, any consultation with First Nations and any Parliamentary debate, or even a single vote in the House of Commons.” Harris was quick to point out oppositions readiness to “complain about it to the media” but decline the opportunity to debate in the House. “They [opposition] has had every opportunity to debate it in the House,”
Harris said. NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Paul Deware said: “It’s inconceivable that such an important treaty would be adopted without parliamentarians being able to debate it on behalf of all Canadians. It took 18 years to negotiate this agreement which will be in effect for 31 years. A few more months would allow us to study it thoroughly.” Harris attests the reasoning for pushing the treaty forward is due to its benefits. “We’re moving fast
“Prime Minister Harper and the Conservative Party has led Canada through the last three and a half years of recession.” Dick Harris, MP
because it’s in the right direction,” he said. “And we will keep going in that positive direction – we are not stopping.” Independent MLA for
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Cariboo North, Bob Simpson said the issues lie in the fundamentally different means of ruling “we have a quasi-free trade here with a liberal democratic country and a communist/state capital country,” he said. Simpson also pointed to the lack of debate on the issue. While the agreement was predicted to be finalized Nov. 1 it has since been pushed back to an undetermined date. For a link to the agreement, www. international.gc.ca.
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