Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Schellenberger, I am not going to sit here and defend country of origin labelling. This is an issue that was caused by some legislation in the United States. The problem was that the administration was not free to ignore the legislation. The law says what the law says, and the President has to enforce the law.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think Canada, the United States, and Mexico should standardize their rules of entry, or if they should, it's just happenstance, because we all have a little bit different interests. What we ought to do, though, is try to ascertain, as we talked about earlier, the many safe, good, honest, hard-working folks who pose no threat to anyone.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Hawn, let me say that my trip to Afghanistan with you was one of those things I will remember for a long time. First of all, I think the more people who can be encouraged to participate in trusted traveller programs, the better. We have to make it easier for people to participate.

Foreign Affairs committee  As I said earlier, I view this as a personal matter, as one of the most serious issues we face. We have to address it. The longer we wait, the harder it will be to address it. This is also an area where there has to be cooperation because we all live in the same climate. As each of us contributes to the degradation of the climate, the worse off we all are.

Foreign Affairs committee  We've chipped away at it one piece at a time. What has tended to happen over the last few years is that on the same day, as a result of a lot of groundwork together, similar regulations with respect to auto fuel efficiency requirements and a variety of other things get announced by Canada and the United States.

Foreign Affairs committee  I read that testimony and I'm not quite sure where he divined that information. I've never heard that before.

Foreign Affairs committee  When I was a kid, back during the Lincoln administration, they used to teach us about that and say that we had to learn all those things because any day now it was going to change. Honestly, I do not see it coming any time soon.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's good to have such good company.

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, the notion that somehow or other NAFTA will become unimportant after TPP is fallacious. You will have two sets of agreements. One agreement, NAFTA, will deal with a full range of issues among our three countries. You'll have another set of agreements that deal with the relationships that our countries have both among ourselves and with our Pacific partners.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. It is an honour to be back here in Ottawa to have an opportunity to talk to you about this important topic, and quite frankly, most of all to be back to see so many friends around the room. As you say, I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to address the relationship among the three North American countries from a number of perspectives.