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{
"time": "2011-11-17 12:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Scott Sinclair",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2602964\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Sure.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2602965\" data-originallang=\"en\">As a clarification on the enforcement of different aspects of the agreement, the investor state arbitration mechanism is used to enforce the investment chapter of the agreement, and the procurement provisions are normally enforced through a domestic administrative tribunal. So in Canada at the federal level it would be the CITT. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2602966\" data-originallang=\"en\">These administrative tribunals still have quite draconian powers. They can tell a municipality or a provincial government, if they run afoul of the rules, to re-tender the contract. They can award compensation to a supplier who has been unfairly treated, or treated in a way that is not compatible with the rules.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2602967\" data-originallang=\"en\">A big issue I have with these rules, sort of the standard template of rules, is this prohibition of offsets. Offsets, as I've said, are defined simply as any local development condition. So the kinds of local training provisions that were described in the case of Madagascar, which I believe is standard practice around the world and a reasonable thing to expect when governments go out and procure with public money, would actually be illegal and inconsistent with these rules unless Canada were to take some kind of a reservation or protection or exemption, which, if we're going to commit ourselves to these rules, we should. It is certainly reasonable for governments to apply a different standard of best value from that of a private company when they go out and purchase.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2602964\" data-originallang=\"en\">Avec plaisir</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2602965\" data-originallang=\"en\">En guise de pr\u00e9cision sur l'application des diff\u00e9rents \u00e9l\u00e9ments de l'accord, je dirais que le m\u00e9canisme d'arbitrages des diff\u00e9rends entre investisseurs et \u00c9tats sert \u00e0 faire respecter le chapitre de l'accord qui porte sur la protection des investissements, et les dispositions relatives \u00e0 l'approvisionnement sont habituellement administr\u00e9es par un tribunal administratif national. Ainsi, au Canada, ce serait le TCCE \u00e0 l'\u00e9chelon f\u00e9d\u00e9ral.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2602966\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ces tribunaux administratifs disposent quand m\u00eame de pouvoirs assez draconiens. Ils peuvent dire \u00e0 une municipalit\u00e9 ou \u00e0 un gouvernement provincial, si l'un ou l'autre contrevient aux r\u00e8gles, de relancer l'appel d'offres. Ils peuvent accorder une indemnisation \u00e0 un fournisseur qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 trait\u00e9 injustement, ou d'une fa\u00e7on incompatible avec les r\u00e8gles.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2602967\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'interdiction des mesures compensatoires est l'un des grands probl\u00e8mes que me posent ces r\u00e8gles, ou l'ensemble type de r\u00e8gles en quelque sorte. Comme je l'ai dit, on d\u00e9finit simplement les mesures compensatoires comme toute condition favorisant le d\u00e9veloppement local. Ainsi, les programmes de formation locale du genre de ceux qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9crits dans le cas de Madagascar, qui m'apparaissent \u00eatre la pratique courante dans le monde entier et une attente raisonnable lorsque les gouvernements font des achats avec des fonds publics, seraient ill\u00e9gaux et incompatibles avec ces r\u00e8gles \u00e0 moins que le Canada formule une quelconque r\u00e9serve, ou protection ou exemption, ce que nous devrions faire si nous devions nous engager \u00e0 respecter ces r\u00e8gles. Il est \u00e9videmment raisonnable que les gouvernements appliquent une norme de valeur optimale diff\u00e9rente de celle qu'une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 priv\u00e9e applique en mati\u00e8re d'approvisionnement.</p>"
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