International Trade committee  Well, certainly, our focus has mainly been in the Asia-Pacific. Much of our focus has been on China, Taiwan, and Korea for opportunities like that. Europe is a long way from British Columbia, so in regard to the issue of how much impact there would be directly on our business, it

International Trade committee  I think there are obviously businesses on both sides looking at attractive markets. I think the most attractive thing about Canada for businesses is commodities. We know that the main area we're looking at is access to commodities. For us, it's professional advice and professiona

International Trade committee  I'm aware, fully.

International Trade committee  I don't know how multinational Telus is. I think Telus is more focused in Canada.

International Trade committee  Of course.

International Trade committee  It's not surprising. I disagree with them on tax reform too. Certainly, we have differences of opinion in regard to what we think is best for Canada. Darren Entwistle—

International Trade committee  I think in our city we do something that is unusual in the sense that we have a fixed wage, a fair wage, that is imposed in regard to all of our construction projects. We set unionized wage scales in order to ensure that we are utilizing public funds to stimulate high-quality, hi

International Trade committee  First of all, I don't talk a lot about, but there's an independent study that was conducted by Maclean's magazine—

International Trade committee  It was a study done across Canada.

International Trade committee  There would be probably 5,000.

International Trade committee  A relatively small number of those businesses would, although we do have a very diversified job in the sense that we're working in parks and recreation, roads, sewers—

International Trade committee  First of all, it's not surprising to pay $400 or $500 an hour for a lawyer now in order to give opinions, particularly on an area that is as confined as the trade agreement. What we're finding is oftentimes our staff will have enough information to be able to say, “This might imp

International Trade committee  Reducing or increasing tariffs based on what you want to stimulate in your own economy.

International Trade committee  In essence, in the past in Canada, in order for multinationals to do business here, we've required them to establish jobs here. We've said that if you're going to utilize our resources, if you're going to take away our commodities, we want to be sure that you create jobs in our c

International Trade committee  I want to create jobs in Canada and to ensure that jobs are guaranteed and that if you are doing business in Canada it will be to create jobs and not simply to take resources.