Finance committee  On average, right now we have about three disputes a year that get this far. In all cases, even if the dispute gets to a panel, there are ways for governments to then reduce the barriers that are identified. It wouldn't necessarily lead to the imposition of penalties.

Finance committee  There is not a significant impact on the Government of Canada. At most, the penalty would be $5 million and that would be in an instance where the federal government is found to have a measure in place that is an irritant for internal trade and then continues to refuse to remove

Finance committee  Good afternoon. My name is Krista Campbell. I'm the director general of the strategic policy branch at Industry Canada. I'm accompanied by two colleagues, Catherine Foskett, the manager of the internal trade group, and Prue Thomson, senior adviser responsible for internal trade.

Finance committee  Sorry, I did not hear your question.

Finance committee  If I could just confirm, do you want to know whether we have evaluated some of the costs?

Finance committee  The Agreement on Internal Trade is a very consensus-based process where jurisdictions are encouraged to work out among themselves the process for identifying irritants to mobility of labour or goods or capital, and to work together to eliminate those barriers. On average there ar