Senators Peter Boehm (left) and Peter Harder, the chair and vice-chair of the Senate foreign affairs and international trade committee, have both served as diplomats and senior officials for past Liberal and Conservative governments. Both have concerns about C-282 becoming law, warning it's bad policy to tie the hands of Canada's trade negotiators.
Senators on the foreign affairs committee amended a controversial agricultural trade bill Wednesday, putting it on a path back to the House of Commons.Senators Peter Boehm and Peter Harder, the chair and vice-chair of the Senate foreign affairs and international trade committee, have both served as diplomats and senior officials for past Liberal and Conservative governments.
Thériault and the Bloc's agriculture critic Yves Perron responded Thursday by accusing senators of sabotaging the bill. They said it's now clear that members of the committee were biased and intended to kill this bill, not improve it, with their review. WATCH | Blanchet describes senators' treatment of supply management bill as 'knife in the back' to CanadiansBloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet responds to a question about senators amending a Bloc MP's supply management bill, putting it on a path back to the House of Commons. Blanchet said the move was like ‘having a knife in the back of their own population for the sake of other countries.
The committee "wishes to make clear that it has taken no view on supply management in Canada and has focused its decisions on this legislation's impact on Canada's crucial trade relationships as an export-oriented nation reliant on trade," the observation says. If the full Senate accepts the committee's report and amends C-282, it will be sent back to the House of Commons for re-consideration. But the Commons has beenin a filibuster — a never-ending series of debates on privilege and concurrence motions that blocks any attempts to return to government business.
"I don't think has really been on the radar for many policymakers in Washington, DC, beyond people who focus specifically on the U.S.-Canada relationship," said John Dickerman, the Business Council of Canada's vice-president for U.S. policy. "It's a red flag being waved at the table. You're unnecessarily putting a target on our back," he said.
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