Evidence of meeting #99 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 chile.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Excellency Alejandro Marisio  Ambassador of the Republic of Chile to Canada
Juan Camilo Vargas Vasquez  Minister-Counselor, Commercial Trade, Mines, Gas and Petroleum, Pacific Alliance, Embassy of the Republic of Colombia
Carlos Gil de Montes Molinari  Minister, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Peru
Excellency Dionisio Pérez Jácome Friscione  Ambassador of the United Mexican States to Canada
Yvonne Stinson Ortíz  Representative, Ministry of Economy, NAFTA Office, Embassy of the United Mexican States

10:20 a.m.

Conservative

Randy Hoback Conservative Prince Albert, SK

I would be glad to do that.

10:20 a.m.

Alejandro Marisio

I'll offer the Chilean wine, and you can offer the margaritas.

10:20 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Maybe sometime we can all get together. The trip to your countries is on our radar. It might not be this spring, but we're looking forward to it. Maybe if it happens beforehand, we can get together.

10:20 a.m.

Liberal

Kyle Peterson Liberal Newmarket—Aurora, ON

Further to Mr. Hoback's point, perhaps during the Ottawa round of negotiations in May would be a great time to do that.

10:20 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Okay. We're going to continue this, but more informally. I hope we're going to have some Chilean wine with that, and berries from Chile.

Are there any more comments?

10:20 a.m.

Minister, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Peru

Carlos Gil de Montes Molinari

To promote the Pacific Alliance, the embassies of the four countries every year have a culinary event in Parliament and we'd like to invite you so we can show off our culinary skills. It will be held on March 21. We'll send you the invitations.

10:20 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Good. We'll have some Colombian coffee with that.

I'll suspend the meeting so that everyone can get a picture here. Then we have about 15 minutes of new business that we have to tidy up and be out of here before 10:45.

[Proceedings continue in camera]