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International Trade committee  If I might, the European Union recently concluded a free trade agreement with Korea. So some of the issues that Steve has just highlighted, they are now having to work through vis-à-vis that agreement. Hopefully some of the uncertainty and the newness will have worked their way o

June 15th, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  I'll let Steve answer about the EU, but I can broaden it out a bit afterwards.

June 15th, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  If I might just add, I don't want to leave the impression that while Steve's process has taken us into some new ground here in terms of involvement and whatnot, in previous negotiations, and even current negotiations, we're having to address some of these same issues—issues like

June 15th, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  That's a very good question, because it's something I face on a daily basis. In broad strokes, the global commerce strategy set out our broad game plan to begin with. We had—and it started before I got to this position—gone through and identified key markets that were of intere

June 15th, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  I will not even pretend to be a specialist in this area, sir. This issue is obviously the subject of negotiation, as they all are. We try to work, as Steve said in another context, to what fits the best to a Canadian situation, recognizing that we have interests of carriers, tr

June 15th, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With Budget 2007, Canada adopted a global commerce strategy that is designed to help our businesses be more competitive in today’s global economy. This includes increasing our commercial presence abroad, securing competitive terms of access to global mar

June 15th, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  The best I can do with what I have available is that the Canadian Beef Export Federation estimates that the Colombian market could be worth around $6 million, so they will be pleased to see this market opening. Now, this is an estimate, obviously. The other important thing is th

April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  I would share the view that Alex has put forward a couple of times before the committee, which is that economic growth through liberalized rules-based trade and investment can contribute to alleviating poverty and create new wealth and employment opportunities for, in this case,

April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  That's not what I--

April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  That's actually not what I said. Plus, I would ask...and Alex can address the promotion issue separately.

April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  Your question is somewhat multi-pronged. I'll deal with part of it and then ask my colleagues to weigh in. In terms of some of the other agreements that we have done, particularly most recently, I think it's important to keep in mind that the EFTA and the Peru deals, which are

April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  In general terms, when agreements come into effect and a treaty is concluded with a country, inevitably there are going to be changes of government on potentially both sides. These agreements always will have an institutional clause that says if one party or the other wishes to t

April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  I'm dredging my memory here, but soon after I took on this position, as I recall this committee put out a report about Canada's free trade agenda more generally. One of the recommendations the committee put forward was that we needed to be pursuing an aggressive trade policy on a

April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for this opportunity to appear before this committee and speak to Bill C-2, an act to implement the Canada-Colombia free trade agreement and the parallel agreements on labour cooperation and the environment. This Bill implements the legal framework and legi

April 22nd, 2010Committee meeting

David Plunkett