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August 14th, 2017Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee I have not seen any data from Health Canada on that.
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee Certainly the accuracy would be questionable, because I think in any of these kinds of studies you have to make a whole series of assumptions that could be challenged. The fact is we don't know what exactly the behaviour will be of Canadian exporters, or for that matter of EU exp
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee Sure. When we did the economic study in 2008, it was comparatively easy because we made a lot of assumptions without knowing the outcome of the negotiations. You can assume that all tariffs will be eliminated, for example, whereas the actual negotiated result will be much more n
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee If we look back to all of the previous free trade agreements we've done, we have never had any kind of legislative requirement to do any kind of economic study like this. There have been many studies done, and the majority of those studies, including by outside firms, have been i
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee Sure. To start with, on the issue of repositioning of owned or leased empty containers on a non-revenue basis, this is something that was requested of us by stakeholders—port authorities, the Shipping Federation, others. There is no scope for any enterprise involved to offer th
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee It's the ability to move their containers back and forth so that any particular shipper doesn't have to hire an outside company to move an empty container back. They can move it back and forth on their own. They can't make any money from it. It's on a non-revenue basis. It's just
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee That's right.
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee Yes. We did engage with labour stakeholders as well, including the Seafarers' union.
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee Well, that's a broader issue. In most cases, we have not allowed use of flags of convenience; certainly, on any of the feedering issues, you were not allowed to use flags of convenience. We did ensure that labour requirements have not been changed whatsoever. The labour laws that
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee Let me provide a bit of context. There were three areas of concessions that we made in the issue of international maritime transport. One was the repositioning of empty containers. I have to say that we did not receive any objections to that particular provision. It was viewed as
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee No. Those countries with which we have free trade agreements that include investment provisions will also be able to benefit from this change. It won't be provided across the board to all countries with which we have MFN relations.
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee Yes, it's not consistent with what was negotiated in the treaty, so that does present a problem.
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee That's right.
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul
International Trade committee When it comes to the dispute resolution process in the labour chapter, in the environment chapter, and in the financial services chapter, there's certainly input provided by those ministers, yes.
December 14th, 2016Committee meeting
Steve Verheul