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Title: CCFTA - Bill C-2 - COC Action alert + send letter online
Topic: Globalisation and Trade
Written By: Janet M Eaton
Date: Friday, March 12 at 12:07
ACTION ALERT: Liberals must stop fast-track of Canada-Colombia free trade agreement (Bill C-2)
March 11, 2010

The Harper government has reintroduced implementation legislation for the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement in Bill C-2. As the number suggests, it is the second bill the government will handle after the budget, with second reading debate on the free trade agreement starting as early as this Friday. There is every reason to believe Harper will try to fast-track it through the House of Commons.
The Liberal Party was prepared to help last term's implementation legislation (Bill C-23) pass second reading and head to committee despite a June 2008 all-party recommendation of the Standing Committee on International Trade that an "impartial human rights impact assessment be carried out by a competent body, which is subject to independent levels of scrutiny and validation... before Canada considers ratifying and implementing an agreement with Colombia."

With the new bill (C-2) taking Parliament back to square one, there is no longer any justification for the Liberals to ignore the need for a human rights assessment before passing the free trade
agreement. We need to make sure they make that choice.

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[RickW]

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The aftershocks came as Pinera's inauguration ceremony was about to get underway in the coastal city of Valparaiso, about 120 kilometres west of Santiago.

The event attracted dignitaries from around the world, including Peter Kent, the Canadian minister of state of foreign affairs for the Americas. Bolivian President Evo Morales seemed briefly disoriented when the aftershocks struck. President Alan Garcia of Peru joked that it gave them �a moment to dance.�

I noticed on CBC's As It Happens interview with Peter Kent, that he briefly extolled the virtues of the free trade agreement between Canada and Chile, without actually saying how this trade agreement was of benefit to Chile in it's immediate crisis.

But, as is the case with anything the Conservatives want to inject into Canadian society, dwell incessantly on the benefits, even if they have to be "projected" benefits.

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