Foreign Affairs committee  Fairly well. There is uncertainty. There is a lack of coordination. There is no grand agenda or plan that we can look to and say, “Oh, you shouldn't be doing this.” Going from those nice Canadians, those pleasant Canadians, I think we need to be those ubiquitous Canadians, bec

Foreign Affairs committee  Kudos to that. There are the women entrepreneurship groups with Justin Trudeau and Ivanka Trump. That was great as well. The Come From Away play in New York was excellent, because you are there with your ear to the ground trying to figure out what's next. The one piece of t

Foreign Affairs committee  I can't really imagine how the enforceability of the border adjustment tax is going to take place, again, because of the extraordinary amount of paperwork that is required and because it is done at the business level. I don't see that it could be compatible with the WTO commitm

Foreign Affairs committee  I think that provides Canada with a great opportunity, in fact, to be planning and figuring out longer-term agendas. None of our trade agreement negotiations have gone quickly. I did my Ph.D. thesis—actually, Chris did too—on the Canada-U.S. auto pact. It took a really long time

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, and it's nice that you are following my media. Do you follow me on Twitter?

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks. As Chris mentioned—and I think I mentioned it as well—it is wasting a great opportunity to really improve North American trade and competitiveness by just dealing with this negotiation as clinging to defensive interests, or defending traditionally protected sectors, or m

Foreign Affairs committee  The border adjustment tax is premised on the notion that, first of all, you can impose a tax on imports but not apply it to domestic sales. That's why it's quite a bit different from Canada's value-added tax, the GST, or different from provincial sales taxes or state-level sales

Foreign Affairs committee  Chris is probably going to be bringing a more fulsome security approach to his presentation, but I will say, first of all, that there has been a lot of focus on the 2% NATO commitment. That's what the Trump government is looking for from its allies, but I am hearing increasingly,

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Allison; it's good to see you again long-distance. One great challenge—and maybe we shouldn't fault the United States for it, as it may be just a function of government—is that there's very little coherence among the silos of different policies. The United States

Foreign Affairs committee  Good morning, everyone, and thank you for the invitation. I wish I were there in person, because I understand you might actually be getting some spring in Ottawa. That's great news. My son and grandchild live in Ottawa, so it's always very close to my heart. As mentioned, I am

Foreign Affairs committee  The challenges you mention are significant, and they cost importers and exporters a lot of money. Once someone has control of a regulatory function—“we own this and you own that”—they're very reluctant to give it up. Regulators are also charged with defending the safety of their

Foreign Affairs committee  I think the difference between supply management and the other sectors you mentioned—forestry, fishing, etc.—is that in those other sectors, while they may have certain protections, while they may have certain Canadian programs that support and promote our production in those sec

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. One of the things we're facing right now is whether or not Canada is going to have to give on its supply-managed sectors in dairy and poultry, and whether or not Canada is willing to give on supply-managed sectors in dairy and poultry. In my personal opinion, these are p

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll keep it brief. Relating to labour mobility and skills, this comment draws upon an initiative that Ambassador Jacobson took a real leadership role on, and that is moving skilled workers from U.S. states who are in demand for occupations in the oil sands. In particular I'm th

Foreign Affairs committee  Wow, that's a tall order. Thank you. I'm going to speak now not from my position as the director of the Canada Institute, but from 15 years as a consultant on trade in the Americas. I've watched the Americas strategy evolve and I've watched the Government of Canada have some suc