International Trade committee  Overall, it was good because, as I mentioned, it provides stability and continued access—and it seems to maintain existing benefits—to the U.K. market. For those exporters, in particular, on the grain side, this is really welcome news. There are some concerns, of course, for the

International Trade committee  Absolutely, we have encouraged the committee to do a competitiveness study of Canada's recent free trade agreements, namely the CETA and the CPTPP, in large part to identify opportunities where we're not maximizing the agreement, and certainly the non-tariff barriers with respect

International Trade committee  Tariffs come down, but non-tariff barriers come up when we have free trade agreements.

International Trade committee  What we understand is that there are commitments to return to the negotiating table, and we've heard leaders speak to that. What further details might be in the text, we have yet to see. Overall, on the consultations, though, we've been engaged. We never see any of the text. Reme

International Trade committee  I cannot speak to dairy, as we don't represent them. In beef certainly, and perhaps pork, yes, they do have concerns about non-tariff barriers at this point.

International Trade committee  Canola has not flagged any particular issues on the U.K. front. They have their own set of issues with respect to access to the EU 27 at this point—amongst others, the need to have their farmers' sustainability practices recognized. We have to see what will transpire with respect

International Trade committee  No, not at this point.

International Trade committee  I will leave it to our beef members, who I understand are to appear later this afternoon, to provide the specifics, but I will reiterate that there are some concerns on the beef side about non-tariff barriers being replicated with the U.K. market, in particular at a time when the

International Trade committee  No.

International Trade committee  It certainly has not come up in those terms, and because we are under a confidentiality agreement, I will not comment on this. However, I will echo those remarks that have been made earlier on the sunset clause, speaking about the importance of stability and predictability of tra

International Trade committee  I think I will respond to that by saying that what our members advocate for, what CAFTA advocates for, is the elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers, a level playing field with our competitors, liberal rules of origin and an environment that addresses problems and truly en

International Trade committee  I think I would really stick to the commitment made by the PMs and the trade ministers to come back to the table within 2021.

International Trade committee  Because of the translation, I'm told to answer in English, even though I could do it in French. I think with the CETA—and it may related to some of the problems that you are referring to—it's very important to understand that the problems with CETA are not with the text itself,

International Trade committee  I think if your alluding to whether or not we would simply copy and paste what was in the CETA over to the agreement with the U.K., I think I would defer to our members and the negotiators once they have concluded a full, comprehensive, and ambitious free trade agreement. That is

International Trade committee  I will leave it to them to answer that specific question, but I want to point to the fact that in late October, the Prime Minister, we understand, raised some of our issues with his counterpart as part of the EU-Canada summit. Minister Ng, the same day or the next day, had a meet