International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and good morning to everybody in the committee. I'm very pleased to be back again with you here today and to provide you with a bit of an update on the activities of the government's consultations with respect to the TPP, and give you a sense o

International Trade committee  I will answer in some general terms, and then pass the floor to André to answer your specific questions. The study and the model we have undertaken within Global Affairs Canada and the office of the chief economist is run under specific parameters, with specific assumptions. It

International Trade committee  That's right.

International Trade committee  There are all sorts of things that happen when a trade agreement comes into force, including synergies and business activity that we cannot predict and that they cannot take into account in this kind of a model. That's just a limitation of the modelling that we have. I'll now tu

International Trade committee  I think that we can look to what it covers and what it doesn't cover. As I said in my presentation, there are some very specific considerations on what types of workers it covers, what kinds of constraints are in place, and the period and the function for which they can come to C

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  Just to make sure I understand your question. You're saying that young Canadian professionals....

International Trade committee  There are two answers to your question. One is that for those categories of professionals, there are prevailing wage requirements. In other words those professionals coming from abroad into Canada would have to be paid the prevailing wage in Canada, in that region, for a professi

International Trade committee  Right. It's really important to understand that a temporary entry commitment in a free trade agreement is something different from domestic policy on temporary foreign workers. Those are two very different things. What we're doing in a free trade agreement with respect to tempora

International Trade committee  First, just to be crystal clear, the government hasn't taken a position on that. Isn't that right?

International Trade committee  The answer is that renegotiation is something that the U.S. administration has said publicly and consistently is not on the table.

International Trade committee  They have their own domestic process that they're going through. A lot of the debates they are having have to do with how the agreement will be implemented. The administration is talking about how the agreement will be implemented to address some of the points that have been rais

International Trade committee  No, we haven't.

International Trade committee  Whether or not there would be a regulatory chill in Canada in relation to the existence of ISDS and TPP or NAFTA or CETA or any of our other agreements I think is really a question for the governments that are regulating. I personally doubt very much that governments will not reg

International Trade committee  Will it cause drug prices to increase? Is that your question?