{"time": "2020-03-10 12:00:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Queen\u2019s Privy Council for Canada and to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)", "fr": "M. Kevin Lamoureux (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du pr\u00e9sident du Conseil priv\u00e9 de la Reine pour le Canada et du leader du gouvernement \u00e0 la Chambre des communes, Lib.)"}, "content": {"en": "

Madam Speaker, I am encouraged by the Deputy Prime Minister and her ability to reach out to find ways to improve upon the system. I applaud the member's approach in trying to deal with that issue.

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However, I would not want to give an impression that all of a sudden a group of individuals in the United States met with representatives from Mexico, an agreement was signed and no background work was done. For months, if not years, there were discussions and dialogue on a potential agreement that needed to be achieved in Canada. There was industry representation from all regions of the country and hundreds of hours of debate, not only on this issue but on other trade agreements.

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Therefore, we should not give Canadians a false impression that everyone was blindsided. Even after the agreement was signed, the Deputy Prime Minister offered the leadership of all parties the ability to participate and gain more information.

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Could the member provide a general overview of those comments?

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Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, je suis encourag\u00e9 par la vice-premi\u00e8re ministre et sa capacit\u00e9 de tendre la main pour trouver des moyens d\u2019am\u00e9liorer le syst\u00e8me. J\u2019applaudis la d\u00e9marche du d\u00e9put\u00e9 pour essayer de r\u00e9gler cette question.

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Cependant, je ne voudrais pas donner l\u2019impression que, tout \u00e0 coup, un groupe de personnes aux \u00c9tats-Unis a rencontr\u00e9 des repr\u00e9sentants du Mexique, qu\u2019un accord a \u00e9t\u00e9 sign\u00e9 et qu\u2019aucun travail pr\u00e9paratoire n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 effectu\u00e9. Pendant des mois, voire des ann\u00e9es, il y a eu au Canada des pourparlers et un dialogue sur un accord potentiel qui devait \u00eatre trouv\u00e9. Les secteurs d\u2019activit\u00e9 de toutes les r\u00e9gions du pays se sont exprim\u00e9s et il y a eu des centaines d\u2019heures de d\u00e9bat, pas seulement sur cette question, mais sur d\u2019autres accords commerciaux.

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Nous ne devrions donc pas donner aux Canadiens la fausse impression que tout le monde a \u00e9t\u00e9 pris de court. M\u00eame apr\u00e8s la signature de l\u2019accord, la vice-premi\u00e8re ministre a propos\u00e9 aux chefs de tous les partis de participer et d\u2019obtenir plus de renseignements.

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Le d\u00e9put\u00e9 peut-il donner un aper\u00e7u g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de ces commentaires?

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