Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I think what is key as we look at these labour, environment, or trade agreements is that we try to focus on the substance. Whether they are as a chapter or as a part of the agreement, the substance of what we do and what we've done in the past would be the same. Yo

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. If I may, I will just offer you a bit on the status of where we are in these negotiations to bring you up to speed. As you probably know, we launched free trade negotiations with the four Central American countries in 2001: Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salv

Foreign Affairs committee  As we have done in all our free-trade agreements, we intend to negotiate parallel agreements on labour and the environment that will be basically the same as those included in our recent free-trade agreements, including the one with Panama, for example.

International Trade committee  It's a bit similar to what I was mentioning to your colleague, Madam Findlay, a few minutes ago. In a nutshell, it promotes and puts in place rules that ensure more transparency and predictability of the legal regime. In providing for these articles and the right of establishment

International Trade committee  To complement what David was saying, you have this advantage, let's say, on tariffs, which allows you to start selling your products at a better price. But if you look at the American deal, assuming that in a few years it will come into force, then maybe they will catch up on som

International Trade committee  Thank you. With respect to services, I'll give an answer that focuses on services in general, because it's applicable also to financial services. The provisions are generally very similar. The first thing we should mention is that Panama is, as you mentioned, a services-orient

International Trade committee  The investment rules also apply to financial services. So in a sense, whatever type of investment is done for Canada is protected. It has the same protection most sectors will have, generally speaking. So it will provide for better transparency and a more secure environment in te

International Trade committee  There are none I'm aware of that I could mention publicly.