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International Trade committee The answer to the last part of the question is correct, but as I pointed out in my opening statement, this is the first time China has accepted any discipline on transparency on any of its investment treaties whatsoever.
October 18th, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee That's not true. The transparency provisions are a reflection of the current Canadian model for that.
October 18th, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee I'll turn to my colleagues on that. What I would say is that prior to 2004, that was not a requirement of the Canadian FIPA model, including the NAFTA. The transparency provisions are a relatively new feature. The FIPAs since 2004 typically would have those provisions, yes.
October 18th, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee The Canadian public policy objective is primarily to ensure that challenges taken against Canadian government measures are arbitrated in a fully transparent manner. That policy objective was served, and we considered it a significant milestone to have brought the Chinese to a poi
October 18th, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee What I'm confident of is that any challenge against any Canadian measure would be carried out in a fully transparent manner in full accordance with government policy.
October 18th, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee The FIPA permits Canada to exercise its policy preference. It also permits China to exercise its policy preference.
October 18th, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee At the end of 2011, it was $10.9 billion.
October 18th, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee It was $4.5 billion at the end of 2011.
October 18th, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee It's somewhat the other way around. There is no national treatment with respect to establishing an investment, but there is national treatment with respect to the treatment of investment once it's established.
October 18th, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. We certainly appreciate this opportunity to appear before the committee to provide a briefing on the Canada-China foreign investment promotion and protection agreement, or FIPA. I've been introduced, so let me introduce my colleagues who are h
October 18th, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee In a previous incarnation, Dany was our procurement lead. She's saying that sounds right, but that's from memory; she wouldn't want to swear to it.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee Yes, it's ballpark.
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee While Denis looks for that number, I'll just say that I've taken note of all three of your points. I know that tuna is already a big business for us in Japan. I believe we exported $37 million in tuna last year. It certainly will be an area of priority. On the procurement poi
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee I'll make a special note of that. Just so there's no misunderstanding, the current coverage of the procurement agreement does not include municipalities. There is no municipal coverage in the current agreement. On beef, I know that our exports have recovered significantly sinc
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney
International Trade committee It is not quite clear yet what we will be able to negotiate with Japan under a free trade agreement. Canada and Japan both have very high environmental standards, but it is not clear yet whether we will have the same approach in the context of a free trade agreement. That is one
May 1st, 2012Committee meeting
Ian Burney