International Trade committee  I don't know; I'd have to go back several years through my life. I guess at times I may have. I'm assuming this question is focused at me, or...?

International Trade committee  I haven't seen the final text, but I've been following this agreement for several years. I'm fairly comfortable with what's in it. Now, we couldn't give our unequivocal support to the final agreement until we see it. There are some questions as to exactly what the intellectual p

International Trade committee  It's difficult to say. I'm not sure that's necessarily the right focus. If you look at Canadian firms, you see that sales of foreign affiliates in Europe are over four times what we export over there. These data don't really capture trade in services very well, which accounts for

International Trade committee  I think the very first thing—and this was touched on by a coalition of business groups—is that we have interprovincial barriers in this country, which are ludicrous, quite frankly. With these, we put ourselves at a competitive disadvantage. This is quite a bizarre situation. So a

International Trade committee  Thanks, it's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for the invitation. I remember when we started on this process in 2006, every six months the composition of the committee changed. It's nice that there's been some stability over the last few years. I want to talk about the geopolitical