International Trade committee  Okay, thank you. I'll take the first cut, and then I'll turn to my colleagues. Yes, “Buy America” is one of the irritants I talked about. The figure I cited was that actually 77% of all of our merchandise exports in 2014 went to the United States, so it is by far and away our

International Trade committee  There are no changes at all vis-à-vis Canada. The Pacific Alliance itself continues to be a going concern. This is an initiative that sprung up amongst the four countries of Mexico, Peru, Colombia, and Chile. It began in 2011 and quite quickly concluded a negotiation to elimina

International Trade committee  Again, I get to do the nice bits and Kirsten gets to do the bits where things aren't unrolling as maybe we'd like, so it's over to Kirsten.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Kirsten. I am David Morrison, the Global Affairs Canada assistant deputy minister for the Americas, which includes the United States and everything to the south. I am also the chief development officer of the department. I am very pleased that the committe