International Trade committee  No, it is fixed. All EU members are entitled to that pool.

International Trade committee  We have access to that portion of that pool. That's right.

International Trade committee  That's right. It's in our control.

International Trade committee  The WTO quota is in Canada's control, for administrative purposes. That's correct, but it's only a temporary arrangement.

International Trade committee  Yes, that is correct.

Agriculture committee  I'd probably clarify that a bit. That's mostly correct. There are some processed dairy products that are allowed to come into the country, and they have a certification process in place for those. There is not yet a certificate for poultry or eggs to come in. Our CFIA colleagues will have some more information on that, but there is no export certificate in place yet for those products.

Agriculture committee  Thanks for the question. I think my colleague handled it perfectly well. I don't think I could add anything to that. I think that's exactly the right balance we're looking for.

Agriculture committee  The current free trade agreement we have with Ukraine that was brought into force in August 2017 covered basically goods, excluding supply management goods, of course. There have been efforts at modernizing that agreement, and we had been having ongoing discussions with Ukraine officials even before the war started to try to modernize that and to look at services, investment and digital chapters and make it more of a comprehensive FTA.

Agriculture committee  Our department hasn't done any of that type of analysis. Have you guys done any? It might be that you have to ask the next group of officials. I think they would probably be the best placed to answer that.

Agriculture committee  I would think that the next group of officials would be best placed to answer that. I don't think we're talking about the type of importation that would have any impact on the marketplace like that. There would not be that level of imports.

Agriculture committee  No, we don't see the importations affecting the quotas at all. The importations under the remission order would be over-quota importations, so there would be no effect on the quotas themselves.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. If I could just add a little bit to that, yes, you're absolutely right: the situation in Ukraine itself is very difficult for companies and for their citizens, of course. So that has had an impact on what they can produce. It's also had an impact on what type of intelligence we would have in the marketplace on the trade commissioner side of things.

Agriculture committee  The general import permit is for over-quota access; that's what you would use it for. In this case, because there is no TRQ for this particular good at this point in time, there's no need to use a TRQ. The importer would use a general import permit. You don't need an allocation in fact now to import the product.

Agriculture committee  Subject to whether they are allowed to import it, yes. There are other import regulations and rules. You'll hear from some of our other colleagues later about that.

Agriculture committee  That's correct. They would have the information when the goods are entered into Canada. That's right.