StarBuzz Weekly, Toronto-HALIFAX – Today, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that a re-elected Conservative Government will aim to complete bilateral free trade negotiations with the European Union by 2012 and with India in 2013.
“Canada is a trading nation,” Harper said. “Canadian businesses and their workers succeed and prosper when they have stable and secure access to markets and customers around the world.”
“That’s why since taking office we have made expanding and improving access to foreign markets such a priority. New free trade agreements have been signed with eight countries and negotiations are underway with 50 more, including the European Union and India,” Prime Minister Harper added. “Deepening our trading relationships is key to the Next Phase of Canada’s Economic Action Plan in order to complete our recovery, create jobs and strengthen families’ financial security.”
The completion of these two historic free trade agreements will build on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s strong record of standing up for Canadian businesses and their workers by obtaining secure and stable access to important emerging export markets. Free trade agreements with the European Union and India will provide improved access to over 1.7 billion new customers for Canadian businesses.
The Ignatieff Coalition partners, the NDP and Bloc Québécois, would derail these negotiations and threaten Canadian businesses’ access to these large markets. Given that the NDP opposed every free trade agreement concluded by Stephen Harper’s Government, their role in the Coalition constitutes a critical risk to these negotiations unless Canadians return a stable national majority Conservative Government.
Prime Minister Harper noted that the Ignatieff-led Coalition has the wrong priorities, with their agenda to raise taxes on Canadian businesses and to turn back the progress on international trade. “The choice is clear,” Harper said. “Canadians can choose between a stable national government with a low-tax plan that will create jobs by expanding trade, and Michael Ignatieff’s high-tax agenda that will put our businesses and workers at a severe disadvantage relative to our international competitors.”
“Canada is a trading nation,” Harper said. “Canadian businesses and their workers succeed and prosper when they have stable and secure access to markets and customers around the world.”
“That’s why since taking office we have made expanding and improving access to foreign markets such a priority. New free trade agreements have been signed with eight countries and negotiations are underway with 50 more, including the European Union and India,” Prime Minister Harper added. “Deepening our trading relationships is key to the Next Phase of Canada’s Economic Action Plan in order to complete our recovery, create jobs and strengthen families’ financial security.”
The completion of these two historic free trade agreements will build on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s strong record of standing up for Canadian businesses and their workers by obtaining secure and stable access to important emerging export markets. Free trade agreements with the European Union and India will provide improved access to over 1.7 billion new customers for Canadian businesses.
The Ignatieff Coalition partners, the NDP and Bloc Québécois, would derail these negotiations and threaten Canadian businesses’ access to these large markets. Given that the NDP opposed every free trade agreement concluded by Stephen Harper’s Government, their role in the Coalition constitutes a critical risk to these negotiations unless Canadians return a stable national majority Conservative Government.
Prime Minister Harper noted that the Ignatieff-led Coalition has the wrong priorities, with their agenda to raise taxes on Canadian businesses and to turn back the progress on international trade. “The choice is clear,” Harper said. “Canadians can choose between a stable national government with a low-tax plan that will create jobs by expanding trade, and Michael Ignatieff’s high-tax agenda that will put our businesses and workers at a severe disadvantage relative to our international competitors.”
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