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International Trade committee Do you need to introduce our colleague from Agriculture Canada?
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee Let me give you the information as far as I know it, and if Marvin has anything in addition, he can add it. During the course of the negotiations and the repeated consultations we had with the industry, the issue of Norwegian subsidies was brought to the table by many players. W
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee Just to deal with the first question, as of right now we have FTAs in force with the U.S. and Mexico through NAFTA, and with Israel, Chile, and Costa Rica. We have concluded the EFTA, Peru, Colombia, and Jordan, so there are another four that gradually will work their way to this
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee The other thing to keep in mind, which was touched upon by both Ken and Stewart, is that when you talk about agreements, you have to remember that we also have other agreements in place, such as on foreign investment protection, science and technology, and the air negotiations. S
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee Your question is focused more on the remit of Industry Canada. We had hoped to have somebody here with us, but I learned a couple of minutes ago that they are not going to be here with us. We will do what we can, but we may have to pass on this and get back to you. Let me assur
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee We spent an enormous amount of time over the last decade consulting with the industry to make sure that we had a full sense of what the impact could be for reducing tariffs. We sat down with individual companies, we sat down with associations, we sat down with stakeholders repres
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee The only thing I would add is that we do not consider it problematic to run both a multilateral and bilateral regional track simultaneously. This is nothing new. During the previous round of trade negotiations, the so-called Uruguay Round, we were engaged with the negotiation o
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee This is outside my personal remit, but from discussions with our colleagues who are involved with the WTO negotiations, in particular our agricultural chief negotiator, my understanding is that they are very confident that they are doing a very good job in defending our supply ma
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee Merci. My colleagues had expected to start at ten, so they may drift in over the next few minutes.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee But I'm certainly prepared to start and take it as far as I can get it.
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee I appreciate the opportunity to appear once again before this committee to talk about the Canada-EFTA agreement, this time in the context of Bill C-2. As you know, the Canada-EFTA agreement was the first treaty tabled in Parliament under the new treaties in Parliament policy back
February 10th, 2009Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee Again, I think largely in the agricultural area, especially if you have products that are very price sensitive, where if all other things are even, if you have an x percent price advantage, it stands to reason that you may do well out of this--like in wheat. This is certainly one
March 10th, 2008Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee Did you say “product promotion”?
March 10th, 2008Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee If you're agreeable, I have a colleague here from the border agency. I would ask her to speak to the border issue more specifically.
March 10th, 2008Committee meeting
David Plunkett
International Trade committee I will give you a superficial summary of my understanding of the link, but I'd like to send you a piece of paper that will give you a more formal link, because I'm now going on memory here. As you know, the EU is now up to 27 member states that have various rights and obligation
March 10th, 2008Committee meeting
David Plunkett