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Government Operations committee To be honest, I don't know if there's any body in the Government of Canada that tracks that, because, as you said, it's an individual company that brings the complaint, and that company may or may not inform a government body. I truly don't know if they do. There's no requirement on a Canadian company to inform any part of the Canadian government that it's bringing a complaint in France.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee That's correct.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee That's correct.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee We don't get involved in that. As I said earlier, we look at whether there has been a violation of evaluation of bids, whether there's been an allegation of conflict of interest. We don't get into the sorts of issues you're raising. I think the previous witnesses would be better placed to answer that question.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee That's right.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee It incorporates, as I said earlier, by reference the trade agreements. It doesn't specifically refer to the matters that you're raising.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee It talks about national treatment, non-discrimination. That's what the trade agreements talk about.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee The specific international agreements that I mentioned earlier--the NAFTA, the AGP.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee No, I don't.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee Again, it's not something the CITT does. We track the complaints that come to us, but I don't know who tracks--
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee Let me be quite clear, we don't deal in country-to-country disputes. We deal with disputes that are brought by particular companies. So a French company could come before the tribunal, yes.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee I can answer that question--
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee We do other things than the public market.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman
Government Operations committee Yes. As I said, we try to resolve our cases within 90 days. So we've already resolved some cases this year.
May 17th, 2007Committee meeting
Elaine Feldman