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Fisheries committee It was the number of seals culled. Then it was about 600 for Finland. As to the timeframe, these are recent annual numbers.
April 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
Fisheries committee For the EU itself, it's in the range that I just identified. Greenland publishes figures on a more systematic basis, and we can provide the committee with that information. But the Greenland hunt is not just a cull for marine resource management purposes. It's in effect a comme
April 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
Fisheries committee The EU hunt is primarily in relation to marine resource management.
April 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
Fisheries committee Yes. For the number of seals that are culled in any one year we have some fairly precise figures for Sweden, and I can't recall the figure specifically for the northern Scotland area. For the one in Sweden, I think it's around 100 seals. It's quite a small number. For Finland th
April 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
Fisheries committee I'm not sure that we have, as a result of the WTO case, the value of the product, but certainly for Sweden it was about 100 seal culls, and then for Finland it was about—
April 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
Fisheries committee To my knowledge, it's been invoked in at least one other case involving gambling laws in the United States. I believe it was Antigua that challenged a number of restrictions on cross-border gambling. The U.S. sought to justify those restrictions under the public morals defence. T
April 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
Fisheries committee A number of criteria has to be met in order to fall under the marine resource management exemption. One of the most significant ones for the east coast seal fishery is the fact that the seal hunt cannot be commercial. The fishermen cannot make a profit from the harvesting of seal
April 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
Fisheries committee The important issue is that the seals that have been harvested in Greenland need to qualify under the certification system that's been established. In order to gain access to the EU market, you have to fall under one of the exemptions. So products from Greenland that are harveste
April 7th, 2014Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
International Trade committee Certainly a big issue the last time around for Canadian companies that were already suppliers, for instance, to municipal waterworks was that the latter municipalities would find their supply chains or supplier relationships with those companies disrupted. For the projects funded
September 27th, 2011Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
International Trade committee Well, certainly the impact I think has been more pronounced in areas where you've had longstanding Buy American restrictions. For a lot of transportation infrastructure spending, you've had these Buy American restrictions since 1982. There has been a narrowing and there have been
September 27th, 2011Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
International Trade committee My apologies, but I will answer your question in English. A variety of business groups that represent both U.S. as well as Canadian interests in Washington were quite active during the 2009 recovery act in expressing their concerns about the introduction of the Buy American pro
September 27th, 2011Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
International Trade committee If I could just elaborate for one second, the WTO government procurement agreement signatories held a meeting last week in Geneva. At that meeting, Canada reiterated its concerns about this legislation. The position or the response of the U.S. government was twofold: one, this is
September 27th, 2011Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
International Trade committee There's no substantive difference in the scope of the Buy American provision. There are a few textual differences, but the substantive provision is nearly identical to the one found in the recovery act.
September 27th, 2011Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
International Trade committee First, in relation to the $50 billion proposed investment in transportation infrastructure, much of the transportation infrastructure spending in the United States is subject to longstanding, pre-existing Buy American restrictions. So there was legislation back in 1982 that essen
September 27th, 2011Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson
International Trade committee Thank you very much. Firstly, very briefly on this figure of $105 billion in the current American Jobs Act bill, I'd just like to emphasize that it's very difficult to assess the impact with any degree of precision, but we have been looking at the various funding envelopes unde
September 27th, 2011Committee meeting
Kevin Thompson