International Trade committee  We don't have any specific examples that we can cite here for the benefit of the committee today, but I think there is a hierarchical order whereby, if the Government of Canada is seeking a trade agreement with a global community or a country, for some of the basic issues that ar

International Trade committee  The big issue here is that if you're not in the country doing business, you can't impact it whatsoever. As Canadian companies go, whether or not they're ambassadors of the government intentionally, they're ambassadors in those communities where we trade and where we operate. So

International Trade committee  Not to sound like we're duplicating here, but the downstream economic impact of our organization is huge. We're playing in a global market, and the market is shifting and moving. Our inability to trade in countries without the free trade agreement is really prohibiting that growt

International Trade committee  On behalf of Robert Irving, we would like to thank you for the invitation and the opportunity to appear before this committee today. Our operating structure at J.D. Irving isn't commonly known, so it might benefit the committee if I gave a very brief description of where Cavendis