Ms. Fawn Jackson (Director, International and Government Relations, Canadian Cattlemen's Association) at the International Trade Committee

On June 7th, 2021. See this statement in context.

June 7th, 2021 / 12:05 p.m.

Fawn Jackson Director, International and Government Relations, Canadian Cattlemen's Association

Thank you. I'm going to take the question.

We have to be able to sit down with our trading nations at times to negotiate new trade deals as well as to update older ones. To be able to do that, we need to be able to effectively engage in those conversations.

As you can imagine, if we take a number of everybody's sensitive products right off the table, right off the hob, this is certainly going to limit the ambition of trade agreements. This is particularly detrimental when we have to focus on economic recovery following COVID-19.

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