International Trade committee  I don't have exact figures in terms of our market shares, but I can tell you what we are doing to help our members. We are now organizing more trade missions to the United States. In 2008, we stopped organizing missions to the U.S. because the news was not very good. We rather in

International Trade committee  The Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal holds many awareness-raising workshops on foreign markets. We actually started doing that about 15 years ago, when 82% or 83% of our exports were headed to the United States. We were too dependent on our neighbour. We hold about 15 wor

International Trade committee  Prior to each mission, we organize information seminars to gauge companies' interest in participating in a trade mission. Every year, we organize a dozen trade missions abroad. We have gone to Japan, Mexico and other countries around the world. We use those seminars to present en

International Trade committee  I think it's still too early to say. Every time there is an election, some CEOs make phone calls and say: “Hopefully not, Donald, on what you said about...” whatever. I think that will be the first reaction. CEOs of U.S. companies that do business in Canada and Mexico will mak

International Trade committee  If the United States and Mexico, our biggest trade partners, ratified the TPP and we did not, I think that would have an even bigger impact. A study on that should also be carried out. In fact, I think it is important to know what the TPP brings, but also what being excluded from

International Trade committee  We don't see a lot of threats. I think it's good for our industries, such as aerospace, industrial equipment, transportation equipment and life sciences. We have also identified cosmetics, energy, equipment and construction materials. Our local industries in those sectors would

International Trade committee  The US$223-billion figure comes from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The 1% increase comes from U.S. negotiators. That's what we found on the U.S. websites.

International Trade committee  Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Montreal. My name is Guy Jobin and I am the vice-president of Business Services for the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal. The board speaks for the city's business community. It has more than 7,000 members. We organize 250 events yearly,