International Trade committee  I'll just pick up on Michael's earlier comment about forward-looking agreements. The supply chain is now central, so you mentioned autos, Korea, or whatever.... Hyundai put a plant in Canada. I was in Korea when we negotiated, and I predicted it would fail if they put it in Quebe

International Trade committee  We can vastly improve that, and shipping companies and firms like Walmart will then start looking at Canadian ports because of the infrastructure.

International Trade committee  I have talked to some of you as individuals and some of you were in Tokyo. At a conference, I talked to you as individuals and friends and whatever. To me, the current negotiations are with Japan and Europe—and I've advised various people in Ottawa. Picking up on Michael's point

International Trade committee  I will be frank. It's geopolitics. A lot of these TPP countries, including Vietnam, which is communist, are afraid of mother China. There's a massive number of border settlement problems, the islands, or whatever. There is even conflict between Taiwan and China. So the geopolit

International Trade committee  Well, there are two or three things. Just to pick up from earlier, CIBC put out a report. The last decade was a lost decade for exports. One of our largest exports is gold to the U.K. Then you could take out energy from our export performance. I'll give another example. Fifty

International Trade committee  I'll answer both questions together. Michael and I were heavily involved when we set up the U.S.-Canada free trade negotiations with the mandate of both governments. We set up strategy structures, so that in Canada some 15 industry groups were consulted. We did all kinds of stu

International Trade committee  Thank you very much for the—

International Trade committee  I was going to explain that.

International Trade committee  Well, I was just going to say thank you for the invitation and mention that I've just spent three months in Tokyo and touring around some Asian capitals. Ironically, when I got the invitation I was in Paris and London talking to folks about the European deal, which is another sto

International Trade committee  Yes, exactly. There are three papers: one on Canada-Japan; one on the TPP; and one on the study I did with George Stalk of the Boston Consulting Group on the “North American Gateway”, which is an outcome of the flow of goods and services from Asia and Europe into all of North Am