International Trade committee  There is a threshold value of $7.8 million. When the stimulus funding was allocated by the federal government, it was distributed across the major cities and small towns, more to those affected by high unemployment and also following negotiations with regional senators and member

International Trade committee  I just want to make a clarification. When you talk about $280 billion in the recovery act and the stimulus package, it's actually much higher, because the cities and towns don't know if they're going to get the money or not. They are on the list, and in order to secure their posi

International Trade committee  The company becomes weak. I give you companies from Nova Scotia. I give you companies from London, Ontario. I give you companies from across the country. We have to double our investment. It weakens our strength to bargain and to negotiate. They flew over and offered to buy us

International Trade committee  Thank you. We are not criticizing the reaching of an agreement. We live with it. You created the agreement with your hard work and we live with it every day. We are not criticizing the creating of an agreement. We are business people and we sign agreements every day. We do busi

International Trade committee  It's an honour to be with you. This is my first opportunity to have a discussion with members of Parliament. We hear a lot of discussion about “Buy American” and how it's affecting us, but we hear a lot of theoretical discussions on the impact of “Buy American”. We in fact have