International Trade committee  In the 2006 article I was doing what a former official loves to do, which is to criticize their former colleagues and indicate that they're not doing enough serious work, and so on. By that time I'd been retired for 10 years, and my colleague in crime, Bill Diamond, had been reti

International Trade committee  This is a really ticklish issue. As a former official and a negotiator, obviously there's a great advantage in not having to deal with the political noise off-stage of people criticizing you for things that you're not doing—because that's often what happens. Much of the criticism

International Trade committee  No, I have not.

International Trade committee  It would raise them.

International Trade committee  If you extend the patent time for an original drug, that means you are reducing the time that you can have a copycat drug, a generic drug, on the market, and there may be some regulatory issues with generic drugs to put more pressures on the generic maker to reduce their prices,

International Trade committee  I must have been, or else I wouldn't have written the article.

International Trade committee  At the time I thought that the government was being awfully cautious, not all that interested in pursuing what I thought was the kind of agenda we should be pursuing. I have not changed my mind. You asked me earlier whether I had been consulted. I have not been consulted, but I

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and my thanks to all of you for inviting me to participate in this committee's deliberations. I don't have a long prepared statement. Let me just give you some thoughts, and then I'd be happy to answer questions. I'm of two minds on the Trans-Pacific Partn

Industry committee  There is an advantage in the minister's being required to publicly explain his or her decision. That transparency in and of itself will force the minister and his public servants to look carefully at what they're doing in justifying these decisions. I would have been interested,

Industry committee  Our system is not an untransparent system, but there is scope for some serious improvement, because, as other witnesses have already indicated to you, there is a certain lack of predictability. Any time you have an act that gives a minister a significant amount of discretion, it

Industry committee  I had an opportunity to discuss that report a number of times with Mr. Wilson. I think his basic approach is a very sound one. After all, his mandate was not to review the Investment Canada Act, but to look at competition policy in Canada, so he added aspects on the investment di

Industry committee  Mr. Campbell mentioned that Canada is one of the large in-takers of investment. As a matter of fact, Canada is also a large investor abroad, so Canada should really properly be counted among the OECD countries that are capital-exporting as well as capital-importing countries. And

Industry committee  The balance is that we should accept that it's private capital and therefore the decisions of a private investor should be the primary consideration. I do not see why it is a matter of public policy what one group of investors thinks compared to another group of investors. I thin

Industry committee  I think it would have a very negative effect. The use of the concept of reciprocity in trade negotiations was an effective technique in order to get barriers to come down. To use that same technique to get at investment barriers, I think, would be a very effective way to shoot yo

Industry committee  No, I said there was one area where I thought it did matter, where the investor is not a private investor but a government-controlled investor. In that case, I would want to look behind it to see whether there are national security implications.