Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2014-11-18 09:30:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Mark Rowlinson",
        "fr": "M. Mark Rowlinson"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3903939\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let me just offer the following. I don't disagree, actually, with my colleague from the CBA that clearly there needs to be a balance in the Investment Canada process between preserving, for example, the confidentiality of business information whilst at the same time providing transparency to workers in communities who are affected by Investment Canada Act transactions. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3903940\" data-originallang=\"en\">In our view, what's really required in respect of the Investment Canada Act component of Bill <a data-HoCid=\"6732518\" href=\"/bills/41-2/C-43/\" title=\"A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 11, 2014 and other measures\">C-43</a> is a much more substantial review of the statute itself and the process by which investments are made in Canada. I don't think that amending the statute in a piecemeal way, as part of omnibus legislation, is actually an effective way of ensuring that there is adequate transparency and that the entire Investment Canada process and the manner in which Canadian interests are protected economically...and also through a national security review. It actually has to be considered more globally, in a study preferably by this committee, and by Parliament more generally, so that we can truly have a better system and a more transparent system that provides for involvement from workers and communities and provinces when these large investments are considered in the Canadian economy by foreign investors. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3903941\" data-originallang=\"en\">That's what I would say.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3903939\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici. Je suis d'accord, en fait, avec mon coll\u00e8gue d'ABC lorsqu'il dit qu'il faut trouver un \u00e9quilibre entre, par exemple, la protection des renseignements confidentiels des entreprises, et la transparence \u00e0 laquelle ont droit les travailleurs des collectivit\u00e9s qui seront touch\u00e9s par les transactions qui rel\u00e8vent de la Loi sur Investissement Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3903940\" data-originallang=\"en\">Selon nous, ce qu'il faudrait vraiment dans le cas du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"6732518\" href=\"/bills/41-2/C-43/\" title=\"A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 11, 2014 and other measures\">C-43</a> et de la Loi sur Investissement Canada, ce serait de revoir en profondeur la loi m\u00eame ainsi que le processus utilis\u00e9 pour les investissements au Canada. Je ne pense pas que de modifier la loi \u00e0 la pi\u00e8ce, dans un projet de loi omnibus, soit une bonne fa\u00e7on d'assurer la transparence et de s'assurer que tout le processus d'Investissement Canada prot\u00e8ge les int\u00e9r\u00eats canadiens et l'\u00e9conomie... de m\u00eame qu'un examen relatif \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale. Il faut proc\u00e9der \u00e0 une analyse globale, dans le cadre d'une \u00e9tude qui serait effectu\u00e9e de pr\u00e9f\u00e9rence par votre comit\u00e9, et par le Parlement dans son ensemble, afin que nous puissions vraiment am\u00e9liorer le syst\u00e8me, et la transparence du syst\u00e8me, pour que les travailleurs, les collectivit\u00e9s et les gouvernements provinciaux puissent avoir leur mot \u00e0 dire lorsque des investisseurs \u00e9trangers proposent d'investir massivement dans l'\u00e9conomie canadienne.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3903941\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voil\u00e0.</p>"
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