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Draft EU-Canada Trade Agreement Order

Debates on delegated legislation on Tuesday, 26 June 2018, in the House of Commons, led by Liam Fox. The answering member was Barry Gardiner.
Motion that the draft European Union (Definition of Treaties) (Canada Trade Agreement) Order 2018, which was laid before this House on 21 May, be approved. Agreed to on division (315 to 36).
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
643 cc764-790 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Liam Fox | 643 c765 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That the draft European Union (Definition of Treaties) (Canada Trade Agreeme...

Geraint Davies | 643 c765 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Secretary of State accept that after exit day, we will be bound by these treaties with C...


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Liam Fox | 643 c765 (Link to this contribution)

We already have had substantial bilateral discussions with Canada, and it agrees with the United ...

Liam Fox | 643 cc765-6 (Link to this contribution)

I will make some progress.

This Government are clear that CETA is a good deal for Europe an...

Jeremy Quin | 643 c766 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend referred to the benefits that may flow to Canada, the UK and the EU, but the...

Liam Fox | 643 c766 (Link to this contribution)

I think that something we share across the House is the belief that we would prefer people to be ...

Liam Fox | 643 c766 (Link to this contribution)

Of course I give way to the Chairman of the Select Committee.

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 643 c766 (Link to this contribution)

I am picking up the clear message that it is the view of the Brexiteer UK Government that the Eur...

Liam Fox | 643 cc766-7 (Link to this contribution)

We think it is the most advanced and ambitious trade deal that the EU has produced so far. That i...

Chris Bryant | 643 c767 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State has suggested that when we leave the European Union, there will be things ...

Liam Fox | 643 c767 (Link to this contribution)

As we will be in negotiation with Canada, I will not enter into that, but, as I have said, there ...

Kevin Hollinrake | 643 c767 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend may be interested to know that while Wensleydale Creamery, which is just out...

Liam Fox | 643 c767 (Link to this contribution)

That is a good point. The debate tends to revolve around tariffs rather than non-tariff barriers,...

Catherine McKinnell | 643 c767 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State is making a compelling case for supporting the trade deal, and there is a ...

Liam Fox | 643 c767 (Link to this contribution)

As I have already said, and as we have already agreed with Canada, the existing agreement will fo...

Liam Fox | 643 c768 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way—for the last time, for the moment—to my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingha...

John Redwood | 643 c768 (Link to this contribution)

I am glad that the Secretary of State is now stressing to Labour Members, who do not seem to unde...

Liam Fox | 643 c768 (Link to this contribution)

I have said twice that we have already had discussions with Canada to see how we can build on the...

Liam Fox | 643 c768 (Link to this contribution)

I will make some progress.

In parallel with the trade benefits to which I referred, investm...

Liam Fox | 643 c769 (Link to this contribution)

—which could not be a better way to lead into my hon. Friend’s intervention.

William Cash | 643 c769 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate my right hon. Friend not only on what he has said today—which is completely correc...

Liam Fox | 643 c769 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Of course, our ability to take full advantage of what we have al...

Tom Brake | 643 c769 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Secretary of State confirm that any investment court system is in fact a pooling of sove...

Liam Fox | 643 cc769-770 (Link to this contribution)

I have set out what I believe are the principles, but the mechanism may well be different. The Co...

Philip Hollobone | 643 c770 (Link to this contribution)

Given these extensive labour and public sector protections, which I congratulate my right hon. Fr...

Liam Fox | 643 cc770-1 (Link to this contribution)

As the Prime Minister has made clear, we hope, given we are starting from the position of complet...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 643 c771 (Link to this contribution)

Should the right hon. Gentleman be talking not only about “Parliament”, but about “Parliaments”? ...

Liam Fox | 643 cc771-2 (Link to this contribution)

I have considerable sympathy with the hon. Gentleman, although trade is a reserved power for this...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c772 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this important debate on the Floor of the House at ...

Barry Gardiner | 643 cc772-3 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way to my right hon. Friend in a moment if he is patient—I am sure he will be.

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Lord Spellar | 643 c773 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. Given the considerable links and advantages of our relatio...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c773 (Link to this contribution)

The presumption in my right hon. Friend’s question is entirely wrong. The presumption is that we ...

Andrew Percy | 643 c773 (Link to this contribution)

I spend a lot of time in Canada as our trade envoy. What would the hon. Gentleman’s message be to...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c773 (Link to this contribution)

As I think I have already made clear to the House, we want those jobs and procurement opportuniti...

Liam Fox | 643 c773 (Link to this contribution)

For the sake of clarity, is it the Opposition’s position that the United Kingdom should not ratif...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c773 (Link to this contribution)

I will of course answer the right hon. Gentleman’s question—I will come to it later in my speech....

Catherine McKinnell | 643 c774 (Link to this contribution)

Going back to the earlier discussion, if the position is not to support the Canada trade deal, wi...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c774 (Link to this contribution)

I do not know whether my hon. Friend heard the Secretary of State’s remarks. He has made it clear...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c774 (Link to this contribution)

I see a lot of Members standing. I am happy to give way later in my remarks but I want to make pr...

Barry Gardiner | 643 cc774-6 (Link to this contribution)

No.

On 18 October 2016, the Government confirmed their support for signature, provisional a...

Jeremy Quin | 643 c776 (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. For someone who seems so keen to have ha...

Barry Gardiner | 643 cc776-7 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for pressing me on to the substantive part of the debate, but...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 643 c777 (Link to this contribution)

I think many people watching will want to be clear, given the fragile and febrile nature of their...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c777 (Link to this contribution)

If we were out of the European Union, we would then be negotiating a new trade agreement with Can...

Liam Fox | 643 c777 (Link to this contribution)

Are we then to assume that, for the purposes of consistency, Labour will table a negative motion ...

Barry Gardiner | 643 cc777-8 (Link to this contribution)

I will come on to our position in due course.

The European Commission hailed CETA, calling ...

Caroline Lucas | 643 c778 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful case about a very flawed process. Following public pressu...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c778 (Link to this contribution)

I absolutely share the hon. Lady’s concern. That is one reason that it was part of the Labour par...

Desmond Swayne | 643 c778 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. There is some pressure on time. The hon. Gentleman has...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 643 c778 (Link to this contribution)

It is quite in order for the hon. Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner) to be making his openin...

Owen Smith | 643 c778 (Link to this contribution)

Would he give way to a Labour colleague?

Barry Gardiner | 643 c778 (Link to this contribution)

I would give way to a Labour colleague.

Just last week, the incoming Italian Government sig...

Vicky Ford | 643 c778 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman is making a very good point but, if CETA is such a terrible deal, why did so L...

Barry Gardiner | 643 cc778-9 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady makes a false premise. Many parts of this deal would be welcomed, but there are ess...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c779 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way to my hon. Friend in just a second.

The Secretary of State spoke about the ...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 643 c779 (Link to this contribution)

I am slightly puzzled by the hon. Gentleman. At the moment, there is talk about the provisional a...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c780 (Link to this contribution)

I did answer that question earlier following an intervention. There are many aspects of this trad...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 643 c780 (Link to this contribution)

Order. Will the hon. Gentleman face the Chair? We cannot hear otherwise.

Barry Gardiner | 643 c780 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker. There are many aspects of the deal that we would welcome, but ...

Andrew Percy | 643 c780 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The shadow Secretary of State has now spoken for longe...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 643 c780 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member for Brent North is still in order, but I point out that a lot of speakers want to...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c780 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Indeed—I will respect your decision and, in that regard, I hope ...

Owen Smith | 643 c780 (Link to this contribution)

Will my hon. Friend give way? [Interruption.]

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 643 c780 (Link to this contribution)

Order. It is important that the hon. Member for Brent North is heard with politeness, because I k...

Barry Gardiner | 643 cc780-1 (Link to this contribution)

Over the past few years, the Government have entirely failed to explain why British taxpayers sho...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 643 c781 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I must insist that the hon. Gentleman be heard out. I am sure he will bring his remarks to...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 643 c781 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. You may believe that the hon. Gentleman is drawing his...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 643 c781 (Link to this contribution)

I have to say that raising endless points of order during a short debate is not conducive to movi...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c782 (Link to this contribution)

The real abuse is the way the Secretary of State has ignored all the waivers he has been given by...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c782 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way to my hon. Friend.

Owen Smith | 643 c782 (Link to this contribution)

I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way, and I am sure that the whole House is e...

Barry Gardiner | 643 c782 (Link to this contribution)

Indeed I do. We actually said so in our manifesto. We made that clear in the manifesto that both ...

Liam Fox | 643 c782 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hesitate to raise this point of order, but in respon...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 643 c782 (Link to this contribution)

That is a matter of debate, not a point of order. I am sure that the shadow Secretary of State wo...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 643 c782 (Link to this contribution)

With so many people wanting to speak, I must impose an immediate four-minute time limit on Back-B...

Greg Hands | 643 cc782-3 (Link to this contribution)

I rise to speak very much in favour of ratifying this agreement, and I welcome the opportunity to...

Greg Hands | 643 c783 (Link to this contribution)

I will not take any interventions because there is no time.

I want to say three things. Fir...

Stewart Hosie | 643 cc783-5 (Link to this contribution)

I will be as brief as possible to allow as many others in as possible. [Interruption.] I may take...

Andrew Percy | 643 c785 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to speak in support of this excellent trade deal between the EU and Canada, and ...

Andrew Percy | 643 cc785-6 (Link to this contribution)

I am not going to give way, as time is very limited. I know that concerns the hon. Gentleman’s co...

Lord Spellar | 643 cc786-7 (Link to this contribution)

I declare an interest as the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on transatlantic trade. A...

James Cleverly | 643 c787 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise in advance if my speech is rather chopped up. Unfortunately, due to the huge discourt...

Geraint Davies | 643 c787 (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

James Cleverly | 643 c788 (Link to this contribution)

I am not giving way. We have so little time.

CETA is the first major trade agreement signed...

Chris Leslie | 643 cc788-9 (Link to this contribution)

We on the International Trade Committee took time to hear evidence on the Canada trade deal. In h...

Iain Stewart | 643 c789 (Link to this contribution)

I shall keep my remarks very brief to allow others in.

On issues such as this, I like to as...

Emma Little Pengelly | 643 cc789-790 (Link to this contribution)

I want to speak briefly to put on record my support and that of the Democratic Unionist party for...

Helen Whately | 643 c790 (Link to this contribution)

Britain should and must be a champion of free trade. Free trade, the great driver of prosperity, ...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 643 c790 (Link to this contribution)

I call Geraint Davies. You have 45 seconds.

2.25 pm

Geraint Davies | 643 c790 (Link to this contribution)

What these trade deals show is that we are stronger in team EU, negotiating big deals, than alone...

Alan Duncan | 643 c790 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I just wanted to come to the House at the earliest opp...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 643 c790 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for giving me notice of his point of order and for correcting the record. I ...

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