Traduction de «zone d'eau libre » (Français → Anglais) :

There were times when we differed with the government of the day and we criticized their policies, as we did with respect to the WTO, the Inter-American free trade zone, the ratification of the American Convention on Human Rights, and the implementation of economic, social, and cultural rights, including the right to water and the right to food.

7. Calls on the European Union to commit itself to defending the right of local populations to have access to land, water and biodiversity, by supporting agrarian reform programmes in those countries, e.g. Venezuela, which are pursuing them, by encouraging the development of local and regional integration instead of free trade areas, and by protecting vital resources and public services from the appetites of outside investors backed by bilateral investment agreements (BIAs) and WTO agreements (GATS, etc.);

12. Hopes that a sustainability study will be conducted to gauge the social and environmental consequences of the economic measures to be implemented for the purposes of the free trade area, since this will make it possible to deal more effectively with the problems and threats hanging over the region, for example public health problems, water management, pollution, desertification, the rapid growth of tourism and population pressure;

Yet here we are discussing commerce and global free-trade when we know drinking water supplies are dwindling and when two billion people lack electricity or medicine.

Ms. McDonough (Halifax), seconded by Mr. Blaikie (Winnipeg Transcona), moved, That, in the opinion of this House, this government has sabotaged Canadian democracy by pursuing a trade policy that gives excessive power to unelected and unaccountable international trade organizations and erodes the ability of Canada's elected representatives to act in the public interest; and That therefore the government should not negotiate any further liberalization of trade or investment at the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) or the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) without first securing enforceable international rules on core labour standards, e ...[+++]nvironmental protection, cultural diversity, the preservation of public health care and public education and, generally, the right of democratically-elected governments to act for the common good; and That the government should seek to eliminate the investor- state dispute mechanism in Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which gives foreign corporations the right to sue and intimidate Canadian governments as in the cases involving MMT and bulk water exports, and should refuse to include such a mechanism in any other trade agreement; and further That the government should take action to remedy its over- zealous and irresponsible pursuit of greater trade liberalisation, which has caused extreme hardship for Canadian farmers, whose domestic support payments have been slashed by 60%, three times what was actually required by Canada's international trading obligations.

This would ensure that the consensus reached in Quebec on the exportation of water is respected and that in future accords such as the FTAA, the government include the fundamental issue of water not being treated as a commodity.