International Trade Committee on Oct. 26th, 2006

Evidence of meeting #33 for International Trade in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was companies.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-24, An Act to impose a charge on the export of certain softwood lumber products to the United States and a charge on refunds of certain duty deposits paid to the United States, to authorize certain payments, to amend the Export and Import Permits Act and to amend other Acts as a consequence

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Paul Robertson Director General, North America Trade Policy, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Dennis Seebach Director, Administration and Technology Services, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

John Clifford Counsel, Trade Law Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Ron Hagmann Manager, Softwood Lumber, Canada Revenue Agency

Cindy Negus Manager, Legislative Policy Directorate, Canada Revenue Agency

11 a.m.

Liberal

Lui Temelkovski Liberal Oak Ridges—Markham, ON

Are there any other suggestions? We're asking those who were not present at the meeting yesterday to give us some more input.

11 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit

On the countries we choose to have witnesses from, we seem to agree on Australia. We're not certain about the others. We'd certainly welcome suggestions from all of you.

Mr. Menzies.

11 a.m.

Conservative

Ted Menzies Conservative Macleod, AB

I would like to see New Zealand added to that list. It has a very unique history, especially in its agricultural sector, of going from huge exorbitant subsides to flipping a hundred and eighty degrees. I think it's more than just agriculture now, because that whole thing has spun off into a culture of competitiveness. I'd like to hear that story too.

11:05 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Menzies.

I think that's agreed.

Mr. André.

11:05 a.m.

Bloc

Guy André Bloc Berthier—Maskinongé, QC

I would like to add the agreement with the four Central American countries. I would have liked us to invite officials from these countries to meet with us. I am talking about the agreement between Canada and the four Central American countries. Anyway, this is a suggestion.

11:05 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit

Mr. André, would you give that to the clerk as an item for the next subcommittee meeting? We'll discuss it there. If we stick to that process we'll end up with a lot more focused meetings here.

The meeting is adjourned.