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International Trade committee Foreign investment by Canadian companies in the labour market certainly takes place even among very small companies. If you're providing contract research capability that requires advanced mathematics in the calculus of that work, it's possible that you will seek a sort of higher
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee I'm not suggesting that. I'm suggesting that portions of the workforce may be located in various parts of the world, depending on access to expertise and depending on access to specific price points in the service equation.
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee I have only the technical overview to fall back on, but I think for us the fact that electronic commerce is mentioned at all is a very strong indication that it's at least in the countenance of the agreement.
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee There are obstacles, certainly, that can emerge in terms of electronic commerce being treated in different ways from regular commerce, so recognition that...the technical overview kind of indicates that those distinctions won't prevail.
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee The distinctions between electronic commerce and regular commerce.
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee No, I think the fact that we have an ICT industry at all is an outcome of our liberalized agreements with the United States and in North America.
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee It's just the economic cycle. I think seeing that uptick in European markets, and knowing that there are similar upticks in the Pacific Rim and in Asia—
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee Mr. Rice talked about the non-tariff aspects of this in his brief. I mean, this is what's appealing to us as well. I don't spend a lot of time talking to my members about tariffs and tariff implications, but the non-tariff-related barriers to trade are certainly what preoccupy us
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee Oh, there are tariffs in IT, but as I said, we're fundamentally dependent on the export market, so they're not obstacles. They don't emerge in discussions about—
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee There is emerging interest, as I said, in the Pacific Rim. There's a fairly major initiative going forward now around trade to India and south Asia. Latin America is becoming a very important market, particularly in the wireless sector. They're nascent markets in their evolution
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee I'm sorry, I'm not equipped to answer that. We haven't done that study, and we haven't done a canvass on that, but I think it's incumbent on us to do so going forward.
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee I'm not aware of what the tariff levels are. I apologize.
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard
International Trade committee Thank you very much for inviting ITAC to meet with you today to talk about the comprehensive economic trade agreement. I am here this afternoon as a poor substitute for my boss, Karna Gupta. Karna is in Dubai today, leading a trade mission at the Arab health conference. He's wit
January 28th, 2014Committee meeting
Lynda Leonard