Dr. Laura Macdonald (Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University) at the International Trade Committee

Thank you very much.

Honourable members, thank you so much for the opportunity to speak with you today about the Pacific Alliance. I am a Latin Americanist with a background in trade and regional integration in the Americas. Today I want to speak a little bit about the broader political and economic context in which the Pacific Alliance has emerged.

Slide 2, please.

My main argument is that Canada is confronting—