International Trade committee  I would say it's the same. The difference is that most American companies don't realize they are shipping something out of their country, to be fair. It's the Canadian company that actually does the importing. Unlike their trade arrangements with almost anyone else around the wor

International Trade committee  I'll start. That's a great question. First, most of what we export, as I mentioned, is manufactured goods, but a lot of the manufactured goods are production parts or subcomponents, whether in food, auto, aerospace, computer parts, machinery, you name it. It doesn't matter. That

International Trade committee  I'll let my colleague....

International Trade committee  I've already said my piece on de minimis earlier.

International Trade committee  Specifically in trade agreements, do you mean?

International Trade committee  Our recommendation was to copy over the TPP language, frankly. It's fairly generic, or general terms. It talks about the ability for companies to trade digitally and move goods, and the protections they would get around it. There's not a lot of detail. Someone else had mentione

International Trade committee  I am in the same boat. I apologize.

International Trade committee  I think the biggest problem we have—and Victoria mentioned this in her last comments—is getting companies to be aware of markets outside of Canada, so it's anything that can be done to educate companies. Overwhelmingly—and Michael can talk about the size of the companies—you're l

International Trade committee  I would say exactly what Victoria is saying, but maybe a little bit more. A couple of years ago, we actually started an online platform of B2B matchmaking in advance of the CETA agreement coming in, and it tapped into a European connection. There's a European network called the

International Trade committee  Since I was the one who raised that, I'll just say that what we were talking about wasn't so much the storage. It was more that companies are already moving massive amounts of data around the world intra-company. On product design, for example, a car may be designed in five or si

International Trade committee  Look, we don't want to pull a “buy American” and have everyone just buy Canadian stuff. It's true, though, that we don't celebrate anything that's made in Canada anymore. There are a few things now that I think are starting to brand. The companies don't do it, and governments sur

International Trade committee  We didn't mention it in our statements today, but we have in the past pushed for higher limits. I mean, $800 is.... I don't really know what the number is, but $20 is just ridiculously low, in our opinion.

International Trade committee  We had put $200 because that's the personal exemption. If you or I travel across the border for 48 hours, that's what we can bring back. We think it's a reasonable number and in line with what an individual can do but a business can't do. Nothing is bought for $20 today. It was

International Trade committee  E-commerce is just another tool to sell things. I believe this is what Ethan said as well. In and of itself, it won't help or hinder. I guess a big part of our point was that, if other things aren't aligned, it doesn't really matter. You're going to miss out on the opportunities

International Trade committee  I think there are a number of things. You mentioned taxes and regulations. Just from a regulatory perspective in Canada, we seem to do everything imaginable to make regulations as complex as possible. Bureaucrats are excellent at creating new regulations that everyone has to foll