International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  I have not seen any data from Health Canada on that.

International Trade committee  Certainly the accuracy would be questionable, because I think in any of these kinds of studies you have to make a whole series of assumptions that could be challenged. The fact is we don't know what exactly the behaviour will be of Canadian exporters, or for that matter of EU exp

International Trade committee  Sure. When we did the economic study in 2008, it was comparatively easy because we made a lot of assumptions without knowing the outcome of the negotiations. You can assume that all tariffs will be eliminated, for example, whereas the actual negotiated result will be much more n

International Trade committee  If we look back to all of the previous free trade agreements we've done, we have never had any kind of legislative requirement to do any kind of economic study like this. There have been many studies done, and the majority of those studies, including by outside firms, have been i

International Trade committee  Sure. To start with, on the issue of repositioning of owned or leased empty containers on a non-revenue basis, this is something that was requested of us by stakeholders—port authorities, the Shipping Federation, others. There is no scope for any enterprise involved to offer th

International Trade committee  It's the ability to move their containers back and forth so that any particular shipper doesn't have to hire an outside company to move an empty container back. They can move it back and forth on their own. They can't make any money from it. It's on a non-revenue basis. It's just

International Trade committee  That's right.

International Trade committee  Yes. We did engage with labour stakeholders as well, including the Seafarers' union.

International Trade committee  Well, that's a broader issue. In most cases, we have not allowed use of flags of convenience; certainly, on any of the feedering issues, you were not allowed to use flags of convenience. We did ensure that labour requirements have not been changed whatsoever. The labour laws that

International Trade committee  Let me provide a bit of context. There were three areas of concessions that we made in the issue of international maritime transport. One was the repositioning of empty containers. I have to say that we did not receive any objections to that particular provision. It was viewed as

International Trade committee  No. Those countries with which we have free trade agreements that include investment provisions will also be able to benefit from this change. It won't be provided across the board to all countries with which we have MFN relations.

International Trade committee  Yes, it's not consistent with what was negotiated in the treaty, so that does present a problem.

International Trade committee  That's right.

International Trade committee  When it comes to the dispute resolution process in the labour chapter, in the environment chapter, and in the financial services chapter, there's certainly input provided by those ministers, yes.