The petitioners call on Parliament to reject the Canada-Colombia trade deal until an independent human rights impact assessment is carried out, the resulting concerns addressed, and the agreement renegotiated along the principles of fair trade that would take into account environmental and social impacts while genuinely respecting and enhancing labour rights and the rights of all affected parties.

the date of entry into force of the agreement and its duration, the arrangements for amending or terminating the agreement and the cases in which the agreement shall be renegotiated and the procedure for its renegotiation, including, where necessary, where the structure of the Community-scale undertaking or Community-scale group of undertakings changes.

We're asking the finance committee to make the following recommendations: one, that the federal government should lead the way by publicly withdrawing its support for the clawback; two, that the federal government should seek agreement from the provinces and territories to renegotiate the national child benefit agreement with the intention of eliminating the clawback practice; three, in order to support negotiations to amend the national child benefit agreement, the government should offer to increase funding to ensure that the reinvestment programs are maintained; and finally, failing a mutually agreeable end to the clawback, the fed ...[+++]eral government should act unilaterally to amend the Income Tax Act to permit a consolidation of the Canada child tax benefit, which is the basic benefit, and the national child benefit supplement into one unified child poverty benefit.

Mr. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, Canadian Alliance): Mr. Speaker, if the minister wants to do that he is going to have to have the accord renegotiated because that is not how it works now.

The federal government, exercising its fiduciary responsibility — which I suggest is not only to the majority in the reserve, the band councillors and the chief, but to each and every aboriginal caught under that agreement — then renegotiated a formula that lowered the bar.

(h) the date of entry into force of the agreement and its duration, cases where the agreement should be renegotiated and the procedure for its renegotiation.