International Trade committee  It would be helpful, but they sent me animated emails over the weekend about how happy they are and how eager they are to share any information they have.

International Trade committee  I don't know.

International Trade committee  Yes. Let me just talk a bit more about this German-Dalhousie program that has these Ph.D. students, because they come and they are funded by a CREATE grant, which is something that NSERC funds. It insists that the graduate students get placed in industry and get placed in foreign country laboratories.

International Trade committee  There are a couple of different companies here that now sell.... There's a company called Vemco Amirix that produces tags that go on fish and receivers that pick up the signals emitted by those tags, so that we can track fish around the world. This company, which began as a spin-off from Dalhousie in somebody's garage, now has several European markets for these tags, largely because people become involved in our network and they use the same tags and receivers as we're using.

International Trade committee  I can't tell you that for sure, but I can tell you from my experience in speech pathology that we now receive students for internships from Europe into our hospitals on an absolutely pro bono basis, and students from Canada go into European hospitals to do their internships. I can't tell you for sure right now where that profession, which I know well, is in negotiating things with Europe.

International Trade committee  Yes. As I said, one of the four themes of the Centre for European Studies for this next five-year period of funding is on European trade relations. So we have people who are studying it right now. Unfortunately, I'm not one of them, but we have them, and you can certainly access them.

International Trade committee  It's our hope that the Canadian government will start to align some of the money the way the European government did in its Horizon 2020 program. It would serve everybody's interest if we had that kind of alignment.

International Trade committee  I think the CE mark is going to be one of the crucial issues in this. This is a certification mark. If that can't be harmonized.... Our equipment, of the kind I was discussing, which was invented by a Dow researcher when he spun off the company Satlantic, is costing $20,000 more per piece in Europe, and therefore fewer people in Europe are buying it.

International Trade committee  That's what I just did. I did request it.

International Trade committee  Line it up with this agreement and you'll see very strong things happening as a result.

International Trade committee  I would say one more thing in relation to international students.

International Trade committee  There's a wonderful example. One of the first 18 Canada excellence research chairs went to a man named Doug Wallace, who came to Dalhousie as an excellence chair in ocean science and technology. This is a person who first came to Canada when he was 22, to do a Ph.D. at Dalhousie.

International Trade committee  Do you want me to explain with an example? I think I—

International Trade committee  Okay, here you go. We have something called the Canada Foundation for Innovation. This funds large-scale infrastructure equipment, and in ocean science that is very costly, very big equipment. Europeans want to work over here because we have some particular ocean conditions and we have arctic oceans.

International Trade committee  No, you haven't seen that in the agreement. But let me tell you that the Galway agreement, I believe, comes in the wake of this agreement. We've never had that agreement in all the years we've shared the Atlantic, and now we do.