Mr. Roger Gallaway (Lib.)
Answers to Survey of Canadian Members of Parliament on the Multilateral Agreement
on Investment (MAI) and Financial Services Agreement (FSA)
Sarnia--Lambton, Ontario
Language Pref.: English
Room 363, Confederation Building
Tel: (613) 957-2649
Fax: (613) 957-2655
Date of phone call: 11 Feb 98.
Has not responded, but assistant Jim Weil made
some statements. Weil said only letters to the MP from constituents counted. Said we as survey
organizers should send material on these issues if we wanted. Mr. Weil knows the MAI and FSA
are on the horizon. Said he knew environment an issue with the MAI. Made further comments
regarding question 4 below...
| MAI | FSA | 1. Have you read the MAI draft text (May or Oct '97) and "Canada's final offer" on FSA? |
| a) cover to cover | ||
| b) skimmed | ||
| c) certain sections only | ||
| d) not yet | ||
| MAI | FSA | 2. How are you informing yourself on the implications of the proposed MAI and FSA? |
| a) party caucus resource people | ||
| b) Minister's office | ||
| c) own inquiry | ||
| d) other | ||
| MAI | FSA | 3. What is your own position on the proposed MAI and FSA? |
| a) haven't formed a position | ||
| b) fully supportive | ||
| c) have reservations but will accept the party position | ||
| d) have the following objections that must be satisfied before I will lend my name in support | ||
| e) will oppose it in total | ||
| MAI | FSA | 4. How are you informing constituents on the implications of the proposed MAI and FSA? |
| a) Have used my Member's householder to explain to all my constituents
Gallaway deals in householder only with local issues of interest to constituents. | ||
| b) Will use the householder to explain own and Party's position | ||
| c) Have organized or attended public meetings to explain own and Party's position | ||
| d) Have used local media releases for this purpose also not done for same reason cited above. |
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| e) Have done so by other means (how?) No other means have been used to inform constituents of MAI or FSA, for reason cited above. | ||
| f) Responding only to questions by constituents |
This survey is organized by the Ontario Public Interest Research Groups at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa (OPIRG-Carleton, OPIRG-Ottawa), Ottawa Chapter of the Council of Canadians, and Flora Community Web, with support from the Alliance for Public Accountability