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International Trade committee  I agree that it's a significant growing traded good. I don't have any reason to believe it would be European-origin cars that would be exported from Canada, as they're collected in the trade statistics through Statistics Canada. My assumption is that they are, indeed, Canadian.

February 14th, 2022Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  My apologies. I lost my video at some point during the meeting. It appears I'm not able to turn it back on.

February 14th, 2022Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  Sure, Jay. Again, I apologize that my video is no longer working. We are indeed seeing growth in various products in the ag sector. One that I would mention is pet food. It's looking to be toward $9 million in 2021, up from $6 million in 2019. Frozen fish, which is not ag but

February 14th, 2022Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  If I understand your question correctly, there is indeed a special dispute settlement provision concerning anti-corruption. It's located inside the dispute settlement chapter. It's outside of the anti-corruption chapter itself to allow for the discussion and resolution of dispute

November 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  There are indeed minimum core standards with respect to anti-corruption located inside the chapter. Those could be discussed in committee or be subject to a dispute. This chapter is but one of the many ways in which Canada is engaged with Ukraine in supporting Ukraine's anti-corr

November 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  We don't have a specific study on this particular chapter. Indeed, there is a great array of available literature on Ukraine's anti-corruption reforms. We could circulate that after the meeting.

November 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  I'll just build on previous comments that the chapter does not require the imposition of a carbon tax in Ukraine. It is very largely co-operation based and based on principles for building on co-operation in this area.

November 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  It's aspirational, yes.

November 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  I would just add that some of the sectors that have expressed interest in the agreement in the context of Ukraine's reconstruction activities include infrastructure, natural resources, financial services and energy firms. They all see the agreement as supportive of trade expansio

November 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  I understand that labour stakeholders are supportive. Our indigenous groups that we work with regularly are also supportive of the trade and indigenous peoples chapter, as well as our trade and gender advisory group. Those are some examples.

November 7th, 2023Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  We received around 30 submissions in total. Some would be aggregated industry associations that would have many members, some would be individuals and some would be provinces and territories that consulted their own stakeholders within their own jurisdictional areas. It's a bit d

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  Sure, I'll take that one. We fully intend to pursue robust provisions in labour and environment and to back those by dispute settlement, as per our usual approach in free trade agreement negotiations.

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  I can keep going with that. In addition to the products mentioned already—agricultural products like wheat and lentils that are largely out of western provinces going out of the Port of Vancouver—we have manufacturing goods interests in Quebec and Ontario especially, with a boom

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  I would say that really any services, investment or trade in goods opportunities would be opened up by this agreement. As was mentioned, this is the last puzzle piece in the Pacific coast of South America that we don't have FTA coverage with. They do not have an FTA with the Unit

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Dean Foster

International Trade committee  We would see those as complementary initiatives. For example, all of the other members of the GTAG and the ITAG are partners with whom we already have free trade agreements. We're able to have more plurilateral discussions and to build further synergies with those partners. Then,

February 15th, 2024Committee meeting

Dean Foster