International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and honourable members. Thank you for the invitation to appear before the Standing Committee on International Trade on its review of Bill C-216. The bill amends the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act so that the Government of Canada cannot make any commitment in an international treaty that would have the effect of increasing tariff rate quota volumes or reducing over-quota tariff rates for dairy products, poultry or eggs.

International Trade committee  Maybe I can start, and then I'll turn to my colleague from ECCC to fill in with respect to the Paris accord. As we are talking about the border carbon adjustments and whether they are WTO-consistent, I think we are certainly examining whether they are or whether they're not. We'll have to see how things roll out to determine whether they are consistent or not.

International Trade committee  I'll turn to ECCC for that. Thank you.

International Trade committee  Sure, thanks, Jeanne. I'm happy to add to your comments. Good afternoon. Thank you for the question, Madam Chair. Yes, as Jeanne said, this is an evolving policy space. It's very topical, no question about it. There is a lot of interest from around the world. I think a lot of that is being driven by the European Union.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  No I don't, Steve. The only thing I would say to add to that is that, as you noted, the procurement market is a little bit opaque in terms of exact numbers—what we have at the federal, provincial and municipal levels—so we'd have to dig around a bit to see exactly what kind of information we have that we could provide to the committee.

Fisheries committee  I'm just going to add that it wouldn't have an impact on the soup itself that we were importing. It would have, as Paul said, an impact on the shark fins, but the soup could still be imported, if I understood your question correctly.

Fisheries committee  My understanding is that soup is soup. We don't classify it differently. When soup comes into the country, as it's imported—

Fisheries committee  No, it is soup.

Fisheries committee  I think it's fair to say that all of those have had an impact on it. There are a number of factors, but I think you have certainly highlighted the primary ones.