International Trade Committee on Sept. 20th, 2018

Evidence of meeting #117 for International Trade in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was cptpp.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Bruce Christie Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Trade Policy and Negotiations and Lead Negotiator of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Kendal Hembroff Director General, Trade Negotiations, and Deputy Chief Negotiator, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Julie Boisvert Deputy Director, Investment Trade Policy, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Olivier Champagne

Hugh Cheetham General Counsel, Market Access and Trade Remedies Law Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Andrea Flewelling Senior Policy Advisor, Marketplace Framework Policy Branch, Department of Industry

Mehmet Karman Senior Policy Analyst, Investment Review Branch, Department of Industry

Conservative

Colin Carrie Conservative Oshawa, ON

To the officials, are you aware of any other country that does this?

General Counsel, Market Access and Trade Remedies Law Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Not specifically.

Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Trade Policy and Negotiations and Lead Negotiator of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

I'm not aware of any publishing of their costs and expenses.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Go ahead, Mr. Dhaliwal.

Liberal

Sukh Dhaliwal Liberal Surrey—Newton, BC

The vote is to bring the revised motion, but not necessarily pass that motion, right?

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Right now, Ms. Ramsey has an amendment, but she wants to dump it. She needs unanimous consent to dump it or have it withdrawn, whatever you want to call it. If that works, her vision is to come back with another one.

Liberal

Sukh Dhaliwal Liberal Surrey—Newton, BC

Sure.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

If there's not unanimous consent to get rid of it, then we vote on it.

I'm going to ask: Is there unanimous consent for this vote to be taken off the table, to be withdrawn?

Liberal

Sukh Dhaliwal Liberal Surrey—Newton, BC

Yes.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Okay.

Now we're moving on. You're back on the floor and you have a new amendment for us, right?

NDP

Tracey Ramsey NDP Essex, ON

At this point, I need some input legislatively on what could possibly be in here. I need some information—

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Mr. Hoback, you have a point of order. Go ahead.

Conservative

Randy Hoback Conservative Prince Albert, SK

I wonder if we should let Ms. Ramsey have some time to think of the appropriate wording. Maybe we should skip this clause and come back to it on Tuesday.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Do you want to skip this clause? There's another amendment—

NDP

Tracey Ramsey NDP Essex, ON

No, we already voted on that. Ms. May put hers together with—

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

We're on clause 12, right?

Liberal

Kyle Peterson Liberal Newmarket—Aurora, ON

We're parking clause 12.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Do you want to park clause 12?

NDP

Tracey Ramsey NDP Essex, ON

Yes.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Well, technically the amendment is gone. You're coming with a new amendment on clause 12.

NDP

Tracey Ramsey NDP Essex, ON

Yes.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

We're going to park clause 12, so we're on clause 13. There is a suggestion on clause 13 from Ms. Ramsey.

The Clerk

It's not on clause 13.

NDP

Tracey Ramsey NDP Essex, ON

I have a question, though.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

I thought we were looking at subclause 13(1).

Go ahead.