International Trade committee  It would be a much smaller company, for sure.

International Trade committee  Again, it future-proofs an agreement. There's no way any regulator, any legislator, any court could predict where technology's going to go, where industry's going to go, where cheese may go. The ability to say that unless you have something specifically on the list up front, ever

International Trade committee  Absolutely. Limiting my comments to the tech sector, we're good at software, hardware, and making things. With a lot of start-up companies accessing foreign markets, they don't understand or they don't have the expertise in terms of navigating through all these different trade

International Trade committee  Absolutely. Actually I had the opportunity of speaking with Minister Fast this morning. Any time we have the chance, we sing the praises of the trade commissioners across the globe. They've been integral in terms of making interventions on behalf of BlackBerry with different coun

International Trade committee  First, thank you. I know that you and some of your other colleagues were on the pilot projects for the new BB10. I really appreciate that and I'm glad you're upgrading already. I highly encourage everyone to upgrade. It is not so much improvement in a dispute resolution mechani

International Trade committee  Quicker timelines, yes.

International Trade committee  If there were carve-outs for the technology field, that would be wonderful. I know some others would probably not agree to that, but just a short, quick timeframe for doing all resolutions.

International Trade committee  For sure.

International Trade committee  Absolutely, it is.

International Trade committee  Sure. I won't specifically name countries because we still operate in there, but we've faced all sorts of barriers, from our managing directors being arrested in different countries and being asked to report to the police station every 12 hours to be interrogated, to revenue poli

International Trade committee  Absolutely. We're not a military power. We're not the biggest economic power on the globe. We're a small population, so back to my other comments, we need to work smarter and those rules-based trading agreements allow us to really punch above our proverbial belt.

International Trade committee  I'll keep my comments relatively short to enable more time for questions and answers. That might be a little bit more productive. Thank you very much for the invitation. I'm really happy to comment on some of the economic benefits we see from CETA, this agreement, coupled with o