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Marcy Kaptur: Mr. Speaker, this evening I begin what will be a series of 5-minute speeches to place in the Record information about a…

On the recordMay 16, 2001
Mr. Speaker, this evening I begin what will be a series of 5-minute speeches to place in the Record information about a very important trip on our continent that was taken by religious leaders of Canada to Mexico in a fact-finding trip subsequent to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA. They traveled there in late March and early April, and in fact have produced probably one of the finest documents I have had the opportunity to read regarding what has happened in the last 7 years post-NAFTA. The delegation included representatives of the Presbyterian Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the United Church of Canada, the Canadian Religious Conference, and the Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America. They traveled throughout Mexico to all different regions, and this evening I will only talk about a few of the areas that they visited.
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio

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Discussing a fact-finding trip by Canadian religious leaders to Mexico after NAFTA.

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