Canadian and European (Canada na União Europeia)

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LONDON — Canadian and European officials say they plan to begin negotiating a massive agreement to integrate Canada’s economy with the 27 nations of the European Union, with preliminary talks to be launched at an Oct. 17 summit in Montreal three days after the federal election.

Trade Minister Michael Fortier and his staff have been engaged for the past two months with EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and the representatives of European governments in an effort to begin what a senior EU official involved in the talks described in an interview yesterday as “deep economic integration negotiations.”

If successful, Canada would be the first developed nation to have open trade relations with the EU, which has completely open borders between its members but imposes steep trade and investment barriers on outsiders.

The proposed pact would far exceed the scope of older agreements such as NAFTA by encompassing not only unrestricted trade in goods, services and investment and the removal of tariffs, but also the free movement of skilled people and an open market in government services and procurement – which would require that Canadian governments allow European companies to bid as equals on government contracts for both goods and services and end the favouring of local or national providers of public-sector services.

Previous efforts to reach a trade pact with Europe have failed, most recently in 2005 with the collapse of the proposed Trade and Investment Enhancement Agreement.

But with the breakdown of World Trade Organization talks in July, European officials have become much more interested in opening a bilateral trade and economic integration deal with North America.

A pact with the United States would be politically impossible in Europe, senior European Commission officials said.

A newly completed study of the proposed deal, which European officials said Prime Minister Stephen Harper decided not to release until after the election, concludes that the pact would increase bilateral trade and investment by at least $40-billion a year, mainly in trade in services.

Ottawa officials say they have overcome what they see as their biggest hurdle: the resistance of provincial governments to an agreement that would force them to allow European corporations to provide their government services, if their bids are the lowest.

Although Ottawa’s current list of foreign-policy priorities does not include European issues, European and Canadian officials say Mr. Harper has been heavily engaged with the proposed trade pact.

The two governments have completed a detailed study of the proposed agreement that will be unveiled shortly after the election, should the Conservatives win.

Both Ottawa and Brussels have had staff work on a draft text for a deal they had hoped would be introduced at a Canada-EU summit, to be attended by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Mr. Harper in Montreal on Oct. 17. France currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, and Mr. Sarkozy has said that he hopes to make economic integration with Canada one of his accomplishments.

Last Wednesday, a top Ottawa trade official wrote to Mr. Mandelson to propose “the launch of comprehensive negotiations toward a closer economic partnership at the Canada-EU Leaders Summit, to be held on October 17,” and stressed that all 13 provincial and territorial governments had agreed to the proposed pact at a July 18 meeting in Quebec City.

Because of the election, Mr. Harper appears to have decided not to unveil a full text of the proposed agreement, but instead to use the summit to inaugurate the trade talks with the launch of a “scoping exercise” that will quickly set the goals of the pact and lead to formal “comprehensive trade and investment negotiations” to begin in “early 2009,” according to communications between senior Canadian and European officials examined by The Globe and Mail.

Proponents, including all of Canada’s major business-lobby organizations, are in favour of the deal because it would open Canadian exporters to a market of 500 million people and allow the world’s largest pool of investment capital into Canadian companies without restrictions.

Because Canada’s fractious provinces have killed attempts at a trade pact in the past, Europe is demanding that Canada accept a more far-reaching agreement than Canada and Europe had attempted before, in an effort to win a stronger commitment, EU officials said.

Major “deal-breaker” conditions, officials said, include full agreement by all 10 provinces, especially on the issue of European companies providing government services, and what are known as “geographic indicators,” which forbid products such as champagne and feta cheese to be produced under those names outside their nations of origin. Controversially for Canada, this may soon be extended so only English producers can use the name cheddar on their cheese.

However, both sides agree that there is far more political will to negotiate a major deal, on both sides than there ever has been.

“I am far more optimistic this time than I’ve ever been in the past. … I feel very confident that we will be able to launch something on Oct. 17 that will give us a better chance than we’ve ever had before to get a full deal in place,” said Roy MacLaren, head of the Canada-Europe Round Table, a pro-trade business organization that has been heavily involved in the negotiations.

As a trade minister in the Jean Chrétien government and later as a diplomat, Mr. MacLaren was involved in several previous attempts at a Canada-EU pact.

Source: http://canadaimmigration.typepad.com/canada_immigration/2008/09/canada-eu-trade.html

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Ontem ainda estava teclando com um amigo no msn, e ele falava sobre o que isso significa para a imigração canadense, e o que o governo quer vai além do que nós podemos ler nessa reportagem.

O Canada quer fazer uma união social e econômica com a UE, literalmente abrir as portas do país para imigrantes e empresas europeias, e ser quase que o primeiro país membro da UE, sem ser europeu, essa abertura visa principalmente atrair industrias da europa ocidental e imigrantes do leste europeu, a parte pobre da europa, e que exporta milhares de pessoas para os países desenvolvidos da UE, lembro que só de poloneses a UK recebeu 450.000 imigrantes em menos de 1 ano, atualmente se falam em algo entre 2 a 2.5 milhões de poloneses na europa ocidental.

Lembro bem que em 2004/2005 quando os países do leste europeu entraram na UE, os brasileiros, latinos, asiáticos, árabes e africanos, foram praticamente varridos dos seus empregos e sub-empregos para darem lugar aos europeus do leste, as vezes menos qualificados, sem dominiar direito o idioma, mas com um detalhe que os outros na maioria não tinham um passaporte europeu e o fato de serem considerados brancos europeus puros, e não brancos mestiços como a maioria dos latinos “brancos” são denominados!

Lembro bem, pois estava lá, de conversar com várias pessoas que diziam com todas as letras que preferiam um polonês, ignorante, alcoolatra e que não falasse inglês direito que um mulçumano, um latino, um africano ou um asiático, eles acreditavam que a europa estava “escurecendo” e deixando de ser cristã demais e, os europeus do leste iriam diminuir ou mesmo parar esse processo.

Resumindo, preconceito puro, que depois se mostrou frustante para a maioria dos empregadores que não conseguiam fazer com que os imigrantes do leste europeu trabalhassem como os brasileiros e latinos principalmente, considerados ótimos empregados e que não temem serviço ou hora extras.

Por fim, meu amigo e eu discutiamos, ele ainda mora em londres, que o processo não foi dos melhores na UK, os poloneses que chegaram tomando as vagas de todos, com a falta de adaptação, mesmo com toda a boa vontade dos empregadores em mante-los pelos motivos já citados, terminaram que despedindo grande parte, que passou a criar problemas sociais na UK, e com o excesso de imigrantes, a política de expulsão aos ilegais se tornou mais severa, nesse ponto afetando muitos brasileiros.

Espero que a nova política de imigração dos conservadores do Canada, principalmente com o acordo de União a UE, não seja uma forma de tornar o processo uma seleção racista, privilegiando os europeus brancos do leste, como foi a inclusão dos países do leste europeu na UE ocidental.

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Québec sai na frente na união com a França!

17 octobre 2008

Mobilité des travailleurs : signature d’une entente historique entre la France et le Québec

Le premier ministre Charest et le président Sarkozy, à Québec, le 17 octobre.

Le premier ministre du Québec, Jean Charest, et le président de la République française, Nicolas Sarkozy, ont signé le 17 octobre à Québec, une entente sans précédent en matière de reconnaissance des qualifications professionnelles. Par cette Entente, la France et le Québec adoptent une procédure commune de reconnaissance des qualifications professionnelles qui viendra faciliter et accélérer l’acquisition d’un permis pour l’exercice d’un métier ou d’une profession réglementé sur l’un et l’autre territoire.

Constatant l’accroissement des investissements et la multiplication des partenariats d’affaires entre les deux territoires ainsi que l’important mouvement des travailleurs, des chercheurs et des étudiants qui existent déjà entre le Québec et la France, le premier ministre Charest et le président Sarkozy ont voulu par cette Entente lever un des verrous freinant l’accès aux métiers et professions réglementés.

« Cette Entente permettra au Québec et à la France, dans un contexte de concurrence mondiale élevé, d’accroître la capacité de nos entreprises à recruter plus facilement et plus rapidement les travailleurs qualifiés dont elles ont besoin. Dans un contexte de mondialisation, nous avons le devoir de développer de nouvelles façons de faire tout en respectant les principes fondamentaux que sont la protection du public, la qualité des services, la transparence et la réciprocité. C’est le choix que le président Sarkozy et moi avons fait. D’ailleurs, je me réjouis de constater que nos organismes de réglementation ont emboîté le pas et fait ce virage avec nous » a déclaré le premier ministre Charest.

En vertu de cette Entente, chacun des organismes québécois chargés de la réglementation et de la délivrance des permis ou certificats nécessaires à l’exercice d’un métier ou d’une profession réglementé, devra conclure avec son vis-à-vis français un Arrangement de reconnaissance mutuelle, consignant les conditions de cette reconnaissance. Un peu plus d’une centaine de métiers et professions en France et au Québec sont concernés par cette Entente.

La ministre des Relations internationales du Québec, Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, a précisé que « l’Entente aura pour effet de placer les candidats plus rapidement en emploi au lieu de les retourner aux études. Grâce à cette entente nous comptons réduire de 50% à 80% les délais requis jusqu’à ce jour pour l’obtention du permis d’exercice. Il s’agit d’une avancée concrète et sans précédent » a déclaré la ministre.

Au moment de la signature de l’Entente par le premier ministre Charest et le président Sarkozy, les représentants français et québécois de plus d’une vingtaine de métiers et professions ont annoncé qu’ils avaient commencé leurs travaux en vue de conclure un Arrangement de reconnaissance mutuelle et se sont engagés, par écrit, à le conclure au cours des prochains mois. Au nombre de ceux-ci figurent les avocats, les médecins, les ingénieurs, les architectes, les pharmaciens, les vétérinaires, les charpentiers-menuisiers, les maçons et les opérateurs d’équipements lourds. Les organismes visés par l’Entente auront deux ans pour conclure un Arrangement de reconnaissance.

« Le nouvel espace économique que nous voulons pour le Québec s’incarne parfaitement dans cette entente. Elle ne représente rien de moins qu’une nouvelle liberté : la liberté de travailler, d’être reconnu, de créer et de pouvoir construire sans contrainte dans le pays ami. Nous inventons, nous innovons et nous le faisons en français », a conclu le premier ministre.

source: http://www.mri.gouv.qc.ca/fr/_scripts/Actualites/ViewNew.asp?NewID=5898&lang=fr

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