International Trade committee  Do you mean on this subject or a final word?

International Trade committee  No, I think Ms. Sullivan has answered a whole lot of questions very effectively. I happen to think this is the greatest thing since night baseball, and I'm just very happy that we've made a whole lot of progress in the last months on reaching an agreement. Perhaps I should add

International Trade committee  Yes, and they'll be for merchandise trade.

International Trade committee  It won't be trade in services. They reflect, in fact--if you take the most recent--the economic downturn that has beset the world. Anyway, as Disraeli said, there are statistics and statistics and damn lies, but there we are. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for giving us t

International Trade committee  I'm sorry, would you repeat that again, please?

International Trade committee  I would be hazarding a great deal to predict the exact completion of the agreement, but as I said at the beginning, we're on the eve of the fourth round, in Brussels in the month of July. I think when we have completed that fourth round, we'll be confident that we will probably b

International Trade committee  Okay. Let me do the second part of your question, and then Mr. Langrish might tackle the first part. On procurement, we spoke earlier of the necessity in Canada to involve the provinces in any of our negotiations of a procurement agreement. But as I said earlier, the provinces h

International Trade committee  I support what Ms. Sullivan said. I'll add that we're all in favour of the WTO and we're all in favour of the Doha Round, but we know perfectly well, and you know perfectly well, that the Democratic Congress in the United States is not going to give Barack Obama a fast track for

International Trade committee  The short answer to your question about wine is yes.

International Trade committee  Everything is on the table. Both sides, Europe and Canada, entered this negotiation by putting everything on the table, including agriculture. What will happen in agriculture is, I think, a recognition that as far as supply management in Canada is concerned, the products general

International Trade committee  Briefly, he's been central to both issues. He's played a major part in bringing about the negotiation, partly through his intimacy, as it were, with President Sarkozy of France. France and Quebec already having an agreement of sorts, both Premier Charest and President Sarkozy saw

International Trade committee  I'll take this. Mr. Chairman, I want to make two quick points and then ask my colleague to respond further to Mr. Brison's incisive questions. He's entirely right, of course; this agreement is about far more than tariffs. Tariffs, thanks to the Uruguay Round of the GATT and mor

International Trade committee  Thank you very much. It just proves that old trade ministers never die, they just fade away.

International Trade committee  Thank you. It's good to see you.

International Trade committee  Yes, I am going to give one minute, Mr. Chairman, and Mr. Langrish, who is far more competent than I am, will give the other nine minutes, for a total of ten. What I want to say first is thank you for your welcome and for holding this hearing today. We're on the eve of the four