International Trade committee  I don't have any job modelling figures with me, I'm afraid, but there's nothing that I've read that suggests anything like that.

International Trade committee  As I mentioned in my opening comments, the trade agreement, the trade situation between Canada and Australia, is fairly modest. In fact, I think it's less than half a per cent of your imports and/or exports go to and from Australia. In the context of your own situation, it's a ve

International Trade committee  In fact, we've just identified.... It says basically over 93% of tariffs were eliminated on entry into force, including for Canadian industrial exports such as diesel electric locomotives, which is the major export from Canada to Australia. I don't really have anything else on th

International Trade committee  Yes, absolutely, supply management has been an issue. We've been interested in watching this for some time. Of course, there are some interesting comparisons to what Australia did some 15 or 16 years ago, but from the 1980s the Australian government's been gradually dismantling i

International Trade committee  Certainly, the agreement's not designed to prevent anyone, anywhere, doing anything, other than fostering trade. I do have a few notes on this, which I will just refer to. As I said, the TPP was not negotiated with the intent of opposing any or containing any country. In fact,

International Trade committee  As I said, broadly, Australia already has an FTA with China, quite separately. But I think stability in the region is good for everybody, including China. I think it certainly does encourage appropriate behaviour in that part of the world.

International Trade committee  There's been, obviously, very wide consultation and I think between 2011 and 2015, there were over 1,000 briefings and consultations with a wide range of community groups and others in that regard. Some of the economic modelling says that there will be a 0.7% jump in GDP to Aust

International Trade committee  There weren't specific consultations with indigenous peoples, but there's a range of different things done with respect to protecting any cultural and indigenous rights in that regard. Just let me find my notes here. Like Canada, Australia maintains a range of policy measures

International Trade committee  Certainly, it won't surprise you to hear there have been issues in Australia as well. The ISDS provisions we think benefit Australian companies investing abroad. The TPP's investment provisions will promote a more predictable and transparent regulatory environment for investment

International Trade committee  No, it's more about our parliamentary process. We have the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties. It's part of our process that they must consider this and make recommendations to the government. That process is ongoing, and they've had a range of public consultations and meetings

International Trade committee  I think in these types of deals, there are always areas that benefit more than others. Broadly based, there haven't been any specific areas that I'm aware of that have raised concerns about these issues.

International Trade committee  The parliamentary processes are under way, and as I mentioned, the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties is currently examining this. We don't think there will be a lot of change in legislation, perhaps around our customs procedures regarding tariffs and those sorts of things, and

International Trade committee  I certainly would agree with his comments in that regard. I think the more that countries trade with each other and understand each other, in that regard, it can only benefit the wider group.

International Trade committee  That's right.

International Trade committee  Mr. Chair, it's a great privilege to be here with you. Thank you for the opportunity to make an opening statement to the committee on behalf of the Australian government. As you know, Australia is also in the midst of our parliamentary process on the TPP. Our Joint Standing Co