Industry committee  This came about largely as a result of consultations with industry, the private sector—

Industry committee  —provinces and territories. That's how we formulated our positions, along with our own analysis of how we should be conducting this—

Industry committee  Perhaps there are two different senses of analysis. We are always doing analysis on every negotiating position we put forward, but it's not a formal kind of analysis that we set out on paper and put in some kind of public statement. This is based on the expertise that we have amo

Industry committee  We always look at the long-term implications of anything we negotiate. We don't look at the status quo today; we look at what's likely to develop in the future.

Industry committee  Obviously, there are some different views in the private sector about these issues. We took a look at those, obviously. We relied, again, on the expertise we have.

Industry committee  Well, we certainly had stakeholders.

Industry committee  I think the whole notion of a facility-specific rapid-response mechanism simply hadn't been developed in that kind of detail at that point. To have disciplines targeting specific facilities in another country has never been done before. It did require a much longer negotiation wi

Industry committee  When it comes to those types of issues, when we started, the U.S. position was to get rid of that whole chapter on temporary entry of business people. Our position was to try to enhance and expand it, so we came from completely different places. We managed to preserve the chapte

Industry committee  We do have the specific provision related to protecting privacy, but perhaps I could ask Nolan to add a bit to that.

Industry committee  I have somebody from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the chief negotiator for agriculture. I think he might be better suited to answer that question.

Industry committee  Softwood lumber is obviously a part of the agreement. The U.S. has the right to initiate investigations and impose duties on what they consider to be anti-dumping and countervailing duties, and we have the right under the protection of the trade dispute settlement process for ant

Industry committee  I think there was an effort to try to improve the obligations on labour. The labour chapter itself is, for the first time under the new agreement, a part of the agreement and subject to dispute settlement. It does include quite a significant number of improvements over the existi

Industry committee  There are a number of transition periods in certain areas, primarily in intellectual property, although there are also some in agriculture and some other areas in which we wanted to have some additional time to allow us to make adjustments in the sector or industry to allow them

Industry committee  It's more a matter of easing the transition, because some of these rules will involve adjustments required by companies and exporters, so it's important to have the time to do what they need to do to adjust to these new rules.

Industry committee  I think you have to step back a bit, because you have to look at the existing NAFTA, in which there is absolutely no protection on aluminum, no kind of provision on aluminum, that requires a certain amount of aluminum to be used in the production of cars. Under the new rules, man