International Trade committee  I'm going to let my colleague, Alison O'Leary—

International Trade committee  The auto rules of origin in particular, as people who were following the negotiations will know, were a difficult part of the negotiation. They were very much crunched in the latter stages of this negotiation. At that time, we were in heavy consultation with the auto parts indus

International Trade committee  Yes. We have a website currently, a TPP website, that includes factual information about the outcomes of the TPP across sectors, across regions. We slice and dice it different ways.

International Trade committee  You're talking about fact sheets on some of these issues, and that's something we're working on and thinking about. I think to date the exercise has been to gather up as many views as possible to get a feeling for where the questions are. We're working in that direction, but I

International Trade committee  There are a couple. Services trade is protected by some countries in sensitive sectors, and by Canada; for example, education and health services, we don't liberalize in the context of free trade agreements, but other services we do. Canadians have a lot of interest in engineeri

International Trade committee  Sure. We have had commitments with respect to state-owned enterprises in our agreements since the WTO, so that's for over 20 years. Those obligations have done a few things. They have required a certain amount of transparency and openness with respect to how those enterprises a

International Trade committee  Okay, with investment commitments in FTAs as well as in bilateral investment treaties, that area does two things. The first thing is it includes obligations on countries with respect to how they treat foreign investments in their jurisdiction. For example, it imposes an obligatio

International Trade committee  I think every negotiation is different. I think a plurilateral negotiation—a negotiation with many parties—has a lot of additional complexities. A bilateral negotiation is fairly straightforward. You know what you're looking for from the partner; they know what they're looking fo

International Trade committee  Absolutely, and we were very like-minded with certain countries in a number of areas and had very difficult issues to crunch with those same countries. We are very like-minded with the United States in certain areas around transparency and regulatory coherence, environment, and l

International Trade committee  Right. I think your question also raises an interesting thing. The TPP negotiation is unlike a negotiation with the Europeans, say, or with Korea, in that there are very different levels of economic development in the countries around the table in the TPP. Also, there are very di

International Trade committee  It does. It also sets expectations of our partners. But we do change; we do change provisions. We do try to build on what we've learned in the past, and we do try to move issues forward. For example, we have a lot of new obligations in the TPP with respect to competition as it

International Trade committee  During the negotiations, we worked hand in hand with the provinces. We had representatives from the provinces that we met with before and after every negotiating round and in between negotiating rounds. Many provinces attended negotiating rounds with us. They didn't sit at the ne

International Trade committee  Right. It's TPP, but the same is true in CETA. They were fully involved. They had full access to everything that was being negotiated. They had full access to me and my team to make sure they understood the implications as the negotiations were progressing. So yes, it was complet

International Trade committee  Hopefully. That's exactly the goal. There are many goals, and that is one of them. It's lower costs for inputs into Canadian manufacturing and supply chains and value chains. It's increased competition in Canada and increased numbers of Canadians selling the services, and investm

International Trade committee  That's right. Many of the TPP countries have high tariffs in most manufactured products, electronic products, plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. Those are a lot of the big examples. It's across all sectors; there's no one sector. Malaysia, Vietnam, and Japan have ver