International Trade committee  Thank you.

International Trade committee  Our position is not to say “close the borders” and not allow access from other markets, especially the United States. What we are saying is that when there are public dollars, they really should be spent back home. We're not saying that 100% of public dollars need to be spent her

International Trade committee  Yes. What we'd like to see is where the trade is more balanced. There is not a balanced trade agreement or a procurement policy. There is something in Quebec, and then there was the example that I spoke of as well in terms of the procurement policy that the City of Toronto passed

International Trade committee  If something like this took place in the United States, I believe it would not have unfolded in the same way. Unfortunately, we don't have a procurement policy that enforces a certain level of Canadian content where taxpayer dollars are being spent. The United States, for many de

International Trade committee  It's this issue of reciprocity that leads us to our second area of concern. For us, the idea of trade reciprocity has meant levelling the playing field of global trade with smart and managed trade policies. Trade reciprocity does not mean blindly and needlessly forcing countries