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International Trade committee I'll just offer two points. We did anticipate this debate when the FTA was being highly debated within the Americas and we did produce a document because we felt it was important. It was not just to be critical. You have to have some alternatives to suggest, and we did suggest th
May 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
International Trade committee I think that had to do with our strategy around negotiations to a large degree, to be very candid. I don't think it's impossible. Had we chosen to do so, we wouldn't have achieved the same success as the U.S. in their negotiations. There has been a change in thinking in the U.S.
May 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
International Trade committee I would argue that the premise of the agreement is based on the premise of all other free trade agreements we've negotiated, and we think that's a flawed approach. Again, I will come back to the point that you started with. We got into this economic crisis because the levers of g
May 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
International Trade committee No, I don't think there is a particular clause that I could point to.
May 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
International Trade committee Thank you for your question. I think that is an appropriate point. There is no question, given the evolution of our negotiations with country and free trade agreements, that the labour side of the agreement has always been dealt with as an addendum to the agreement. It's not a
May 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
International Trade committee Thanks. In regard to the point that Mr. Cannis has made, I'm not saying that we should bury our heads in the sand and not have trading relationships with other countries. As a matter of fact, the congress clearly recognizes the importance of trade to Canadian jobs. There's no d
May 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
International Trade committee Thanks, Mr. Chair. On behalf of the 3.2 million members of the Canadian Labour Congress, we thank you for affording us the opportunity to present our views. CLC brings together national and international unions along with provincial and territorial federations of labour and a la
May 12th, 2009Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, just very briefly, I want to again thank the committee. I think there were some very thoughtful questions about the process here. I just want to end.... I know that quite often we indulge in partisan bickering about these matters. I just want to make a plea to the committee
May 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
May 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's true.
May 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, that is the way to build our country and our economy.
May 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes and no. Not everybody who has come here as an immigrant has had a job. There was no promise of a job.
May 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
Citizenship and Immigration committee If we bring people as engineers, we should try to incorporate them so that they can work in their field.
May 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
Citizenship and Immigration committee That would seem to make sense.
May 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff
Citizenship and Immigration committee These are all hypothetical.
May 13th, 2008Committee meeting
Hassan Yussuff