International Trade Committee on Feb. 26th, 2020

[Marie-France Paquet]

It is possible, but you need to look at it carefully. If you have a hunch in a sector and you look.... There's a lot of intra-trade industry. In the same sector we export and we import, because it's the subsectors that vary. We have 57 sectors and there are a lot of subsectors in there.

I think you're right but I would need to look carefully, and to do that you pick a sector in which you think that might be the case, and you go deep down. You look at production and you look at the exports and imports pattern and how it changes.

[Randeep Sarai, Liberal, Surrey Centre, BC]

My second question is for the automotive sector. Would it be possible for you to into what vehicle part could have more production in Canada, for which the government could give assistance to increase Canadian sourcing so we could actually get a gain in that and accomplish the goal?

What sector, or what parts of a car, could Canada invest in and increase our domestic production of and thus increase our NAFTA trading zone?

[Marie-France Paquet]

It's basically the same thing. I do not have that information with me and I don't have it explicitly laid out in the study. For that, you need to look at the HS code in a very detailed fashion. Then you can consider it. I do not have that answer right now.

[The Chair, Liberal, Judy Sgro]

I want to say a sincere thank you to our witnesses and to all our members for skipping their lunches and coming here because this was very important.

The meeting is adjourned.