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Quick Facts on the WTO
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- Number of times the 1997 Liberal election platform mentioned
“health care”: 46
- Number of times the 1997 Liberal election platform mentioned
opening Canada’s health care system to global corporations at
the WTO: 0
- Number of pages in WTO agreements: 30,000
- Number of Canadian laws that had to be changed for Canada to
join the WTO: 31
- Number of hours of debate allowed by the Liberals in the House of
Commons on Canada’s decision to participate in the WTO: 18
- % of Canadians who support the inclusion of core labour
standards in world trade deals: 81
- % of Liberal supporters who support the inclusion of core labour
standards in world trade deals: 84
- % of Liberal MPs in the last parliament who voted for an NDP
proposal to include core labour standards at the WTO: 0
- Number of days before the new round of WTO talks that the US
disclosed its negotiating position to the public: 124
- Number of days before the new round of WTO talks that the
Liberals disclosed Canada’s negotiating position to the public: 14
- Number of “Big Three” auto industry jobs protected by the Auto
Pact: 50 000
- Number of trade bureaucrats on the WTO tribunal that struck
down the Auto Pact: 3
- % reduction in farm income supports required by the WTO since
1993: 20
- % reduction in Canada’s farm income supports since 1993: 60
- Amount of time that the MAI would have bound future parliaments
to its provisions: 20 years
- Amount of time that Prime Minister Chretien spent in Parliament
defending Canada’s participation in the MAI negotiations: 59
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