Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  No, I think you really captured it, Michael. The Line 5 issue is really about maintaining that particular avenue, as you mentioned. We do have a number of efforts under way to try to make sure that the new opening we have with the U.S. administration gives us the possibility of

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Michael, I'll go ahead on this, if that's okay. Yes, certainly with respect to buy America, I think our getting a complete exemption from the buy America provisions is something that's not likely to be politically possible in the U.S. We are taking an approach through which we'r

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Sure. Thank you. Yes, certainly we do have provisions in CUSMA that could come into play on these issues, particularly in relation to investment obligations, but as I think Michael has pointed out, this is not really the route we want to go right now. I don't think we want to en

International Trade committee  Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Yes, certainly we do have provisions in CETA that do specify that export restrictions are illegal. However, there are exceptions to that: in particular, if the export restrictions are applied on a temporary basis, if they're to prevent a cr

International Trade committee  We're certainly doing a full spectrum of analysis of potential options that we may have to look at, but at this point, our primary objective is making sure that we get the vaccine deliveries, so we're waiting to see whether the EU process is going to pose any interruptions or not

International Trade committee  Thank you. Our consultations with the stakeholders, provinces and territories and civil society for the CETA negotiations took place pretty much on a weekly basis. Certainly throughout the negotiations, in any negotiating round, our stakeholders were largely with us, either in

International Trade committee  In terms of the best opportunities, you might go back to Mr. Forsyth to answer that question. He's most familiar with that, unfortunately, although we have a representative from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada as well who can speak to the specifics around the agriculture sector.

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, I can tell you that we have been planning the next round with our Mercosur colleagues to take place within the next couple of weeks, but like many other events, that one is a bit up in the air at the moment. We haven't made a final decision on whether or not that will take

International Trade committee  We do not see a lot of sense in doing that. There was—

International Trade committee  You may, but there was no possibility for us to continue with the existing NAFTA, so a comparison between something that was not a possibility compared with something that we did end up doing is the relevant comparison.

International Trade committee  Yes. Clearly if we do see imports of aluminum coming in in greater quantities than we've seen in the past, then we will be going to our trading partners to look for a resolution of that. I'd also just mention that the U.S. still has its process under the section 232 actions unde

International Trade committee  I'm sorry, I heard “the gain between the Quebec government and the Canadian government.”

International Trade committee  Yes, I think that's exactly the right way to go. In our discussions with the U.S. as well.... The U.S. has set aside new funding to monitor aluminum imports into North America internally, so there's the notion of our monitoring what is happening on the aluminum front. If we start

International Trade committee  No, it's not, because we were comparing the reality we faced at the time, and that reality was the elimination of NAFTA and the imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum, which happened. We were under threat that if we did not negotiate, NAFTA would be eliminated; the U.S. woul

International Trade committee  Obviously, we haven't received specific numbers from industry, but based on what they've been telling us across the various sectors that are most affected by the outcomes, certainly the results are very comparable to what we've encountered here. I would like to clarify that, as