Sheila Copps Quotes
Once NAFTA is signed, U. S. lawyers will pour across the border in search of surrogate mothers' wombs to rent for their childless clients.
The assumption being that Canadian national health insurance would make the process of surrogate motherhood less expensive if the mother were Canadian.
Sheila Copps, Canadian Member of Parliament (Liberal), Quoted in Peter C. Newman, The Canadian Revolution, 1995
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This is a fascinating quotation. In general we associate religious fundamentalism and especially theocracy with retrograde and ancient views of living with modernity avoided wherever possible. However, in Iran, where almost all other fundamentalist leaders have claimed that in vitro fertilization in general and 3rd-party donation in particular are against God’s law, the Supreme Leader, not only allowed this techniques but also instituted major programs of birth control and in vitro fertilization to allow the woman to control her reproduction. His stricture was that the parents of these children bring them up following Islamic law.
Referring to NAFTA and free trade with Mexico:
Discussing possible economic union with the United States:
This was a private gathering of key members of the Conservative party.
In 1911 President Taft negotiated a treaty of reciprocity by which most trade barriers between Canada and the United States would be virtually eliminated. It was ratified by the Senate but ran into trouble in Canada:. The treaty was overwhelmingly defeated in the Canadian elections.
The speech was the 50th Anniversary of the Speech that Secretary of State Byrne had given there exactly 50 years ago. It was referred to as the “Speech of Hope” and announced the Marshall Plan.
Surprising to us today is the reality that before this law, it was perfectly legal for American Citizens to sell transport all kinds of goods and materials to enemies of the country—even in the midst of a war. At the beginning of the War of 1812, New England merchants were selling, shipping, and delivering meat and other critical provisions to the English Armies in Canada. There is an unfortunate long history of this. IBM sold punch card equipment and technology to the Nazis through European subsidiaries prior to and during WWII. American oil companies were helping the Arab countries enforce their embargo against is in the 1970s. American firms shipped weapons technology to Iraq when they threatened to create weapons of mass destruction. It has often been difficult to get American companies to pass up profits for patriotic reasons unless there were strong laws and enforcement.
Sheila Maureen Copps PC OC is a former Canadian politician who also served as the sixth deputy prime minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to April 30, 1996, and June 19, 1996, to June 11, 1997. Her father, Victor Copps was once mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
