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International Trade committee  As I mentioned, a lot of the tariff reductions on seafood, like the decrease in duties, even though there are derogations, on the frozen lobster, on the peeled and cooked shrimp.... So in that industry sector, it's great for us because we opened eight new facilities in Atlantic Canada two years ago.

January 30th, 2014Committee meeting

Cristina Falcone

International Trade committee  No, we actually do it all. We do the less-than-100-pounds, which you would typically refer to as “courier”, when you're seeing the brown package cars on the road, but we do freight forwarding. Then we even do supply chain and logistics management, so we'll store inventory for health care, for medical products, retail.

January 30th, 2014Committee meeting

Cristina Falcone

International Trade committee  We can't lose. We have operations in Canada and we have operations in Europe. But I'm here representing Canada and we want exports from Canada to grow—

January 30th, 2014Committee meeting

Cristina Falcone

International Trade committee  Certainly. Once again, we've been using the “Technical Summary of Final Negotiated Outcomes” to begin the education of our customers. We think industry's clear outline of tariff reductions and the benefits of going into the EU is a very positive start. Increasing awareness in general through further communications—and maybe speaking directly through the trade associations to specific industries that will benefit and working with the provincial partners to get that message across—will also be beneficial.

January 30th, 2014Committee meeting

Cristina Falcone

International Trade committee  Thank you. Bonjour. Thank you for the opportunity to testify on the landmark agreement of CETA. This is my first time testifying, so I appreciate your patience. My name is Cristina Falcone, although the security guard downstairs decided to change my name to “Wendy”, so I guess I'll answer to both.

January 30th, 2014Committee meeting

Cristina Falcone