International Trade Committee on Oct. 16th, 2018

[Dean Allison, Conservative, Niagara West, ON]

I'd like to ask the ministry to provide numbers for our next meeting. How much has been collected in duties so far, or surtaxes, and how much has been paid out under the various programs? We would appreciate the numbers from the EDC and BDC, for that's not actually a tariff relief. We're looking for those numbers as of the 15th, the middle of the month, for the first three and a half months. If we could have that for our next meeting, it would be very helpful.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

Whenever they can get them. Thank you, and that wraps it up with the MPs.

Minister, thank you for coming. We're going to be doing this for quite a few more meetings. It would be good if some of your officials could attend, and listen to some of the companies. It would be helpful for you too to have knowledge about that.

[Bill Morneau, Liberal, Toronto Centre, ON]

We are absolutely pleased to have people here to listen. I'm being quite sincere with the group. You're hearing things from businesses that we may not have heard, so we want to get that information from you. We want these programs to successfully deal with what we hope is a short-term problem. While we see that there are some results coming, we are also very open to considering how we can improve those processes to ensure that continues to happen.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

Thank you.

We had two meetings today, so we had our sleeves rolled up, and we got a lot done. Everybody had good patience.

The meeting is adjourned.