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International Trade committee In the 2006 article I was doing what a former official loves to do, which is to criticize their former colleagues and indicate that they're not doing enough serious work, and so on. By that time I'd been retired for 10 years, and my colleague in crime, Bill Diamond, had been reti
June 3rd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
International Trade committee This is a really ticklish issue. As a former official and a negotiator, obviously there's a great advantage in not having to deal with the political noise off-stage of people criticizing you for things that you're not doing—because that's often what happens. Much of the criticism
June 3rd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
International Trade committee No, I have not.
June 3rd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
International Trade committee It would raise them.
June 3rd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
International Trade committee If you extend the patent time for an original drug, that means you are reducing the time that you can have a copycat drug, a generic drug, on the market, and there may be some regulatory issues with generic drugs to put more pressures on the generic maker to reduce their prices,
June 3rd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
International Trade committee I must have been, or else I wouldn't have written the article.
June 3rd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
International Trade committee At the time I thought that the government was being awfully cautious, not all that interested in pursuing what I thought was the kind of agenda we should be pursuing. I have not changed my mind. You asked me earlier whether I had been consulted. I have not been consulted, but I
June 3rd, 2013Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
International Trade committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, and my thanks to all of you for inviting me to participate in this committee's deliberations. I don't have a long prepared statement. Let me just give you some thoughts, and then I'd be happy to answer questions. I'm of two minds on the Trans-Pacific Partn
June 3rd, 2013Committee meeting
Professor Michael Hart
Industry committee There is an advantage in the minister's being required to publicly explain his or her decision. That transparency in and of itself will force the minister and his public servants to look carefully at what they're doing in justifying these decisions. I would have been interested,
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
Industry committee Our system is not an untransparent system, but there is scope for some serious improvement, because, as other witnesses have already indicated to you, there is a certain lack of predictability. Any time you have an act that gives a minister a significant amount of discretion, it
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
Industry committee I had an opportunity to discuss that report a number of times with Mr. Wilson. I think his basic approach is a very sound one. After all, his mandate was not to review the Investment Canada Act, but to look at competition policy in Canada, so he added aspects on the investment di
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
Industry committee Mr. Campbell mentioned that Canada is one of the large in-takers of investment. As a matter of fact, Canada is also a large investor abroad, so Canada should really properly be counted among the OECD countries that are capital-exporting as well as capital-importing countries. And
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
Industry committee The balance is that we should accept that it's private capital and therefore the decisions of a private investor should be the primary consideration. I do not see why it is a matter of public policy what one group of investors thinks compared to another group of investors. I thin
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
Industry committee I think it would have a very negative effect. The use of the concept of reciprocity in trade negotiations was an effective technique in order to get barriers to come down. To use that same technique to get at investment barriers, I think, would be a very effective way to shoot yo
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart
Industry committee No, I said there was one area where I thought it did matter, where the investor is not a private investor but a government-controlled investor. In that case, I would want to look behind it to see whether there are national security implications.
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Prof. Michael Hart