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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "1994-12-12 14:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Hon. Audrey McLaughlin (Yukon, (NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister entertained the Miami summit of the Americas last week by calling the three NAFTA countries the three amigos. It comes as no surprise to New Democrats that NAFTA should be compared to a farce made in the United States.</p>\n<p>If the Prime Minister really thinks that the NAFTA and any future hemispheric trade agreements should be based on friendship, why does he not extend our friendship to those in genuine need of it?</p>\n<p>The Prime Minister could have spoken out at the summit against the illegal American embargo against Cuba which continues to devastate Cuban society but he did not. He could urge the Mexican government to address the grave social inequities in Chiapas rather than threaten military reprisals against the dispossessed but he has not. He could put human rights, labour and environmental standards front and centre of Canadian trade policy but he has not.</p>\n<p>Social, labour and environmental agreements must be integral to any trade agreement. It is time for Canada to take a leadership role and to ensure that trade is about improving the lives of people more than improving the profits for international capitalists.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/1994/12/12/audrey-mclaughlin-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/8188/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/3343/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Trade",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/1994/12/12/",
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}
}