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WIENS URGES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO REJECT MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENTS

Released on February 18, 1998

Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Berny Wiens today

urged the federal government not to accept the Multilateral Agreement

on Investment (MAI) in its current form.



"Saskatchewan is dependent on trade and investment, so an agreement on

investment is potentially of great interest to this province," Wiens

said. "However, the draft MAI does not meet our requirements. I have

written to my federal counterpart Sergio Marchi outlining our

concerns, and have asked him not to agree to a MAI unless there are

major changes to the agreement."



Minister Wiens was especially concerned that the agreement did not

address issues related to labour and the environment. Further, many

of the provisions of the MAI will impact on areas of provincial

jurisdiction. Wiens called on Canada to ensure that health,

education, social programs and culture be fully exempted from the

agreement, and further stated that no such agreement should apply to

Saskatchewan without its consent.



"I will be meeting later this week with Mr. Marchi and my

provincial and territorial counterparts to discuss the MAI,"

Wiens said. "I plan to raise Saskatchewan's concerns in detail,

and ask the federal minister to do a full analysis of the MAI and

its potential impacts and to have a full debate on the MAI in

Parliament before any agreement is signed."



The MAI is being negotiated by the Organization for Economic

Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD is composed of the

world's 29 major industrialized countries.



Saskatchewan's concerns are outlined in the attached letter from

Minister Berny Wiens to Sergio Marchi, Minister for International

Trade.

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For more information, contact:



Rob Cunningham

Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs

Regina

Phone: (306) 787-8008

rob.cunningham.ia0@govmail.gov.sk.ca

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