International Trade committee  At this stage we could not impose any obligations on Ukraine without going back to Ukraine and negotiating that change. If this proposal is not suggesting any obligations on Ukraine per se, the legal advice we have says that if the obligations are solely on us without any Ukraini

International Trade committee  I guess I would go back to my comments. It's never been raised with Ukraine. There are no commitments that have ever been discussed with them for their participation in this, so this would be, as drafted, and I think as proposed, a unilateral action on the part of the government

International Trade committee  As I understand the amendment, it is proposing that the obligation for reporting would be on Canada alone and there wouldn't be any obligation on Ukraine. So—

International Trade committee  This is actually different from what happened with Colombia. In the Colombia agreement, there was a Canada-Colombia international.... We agreed with Colombia to have bilateral human rights reporting. The obligation is on Colombia to do an assessment and report to its parliament,

International Trade committee  There is a stand-alone agreement that sets up the bilateral obligations to conduct these reviews and to report to Parliament. For Canada it is implemented in law through the implementing legislation, as every other aspect of the international commitments between us and Colombia i

International Trade committee  The Colombian government does on its side, and the Canadian government does on our side.

International Trade committee  If Canada were to ratify the TPP and all other 11 countries were to ratify the TPP within two years of the signature, which will be February 2018, then it could enter into force immediately.

International Trade committee  But other than that, there is a formula. I think we've talked about that before. It's all 12 at the same time or it's eight and 85% of GDP.

International Trade committee  Foreign workers must have the same qualifications as ours in Canada.

International Trade committee  I don't know the rules for each occupation or each sector. I don't have the knowledge to provide an answer on that. What is asked of Canadians is also asked of foreigners.

International Trade committee  That's not a question for me.

International Trade committee  No.

International Trade committee  Generally, Canadian foreign investors abroad do not support this idea for the ISDS mechanism, because such mechanisms are often used to enforce the obligations contained in the international agreement. However, these obligations are not always imposed the same way in all jurisdic

International Trade committee  Both things can be done if a domestic law is violated. It's always possible.

International Trade committee  Maybe I'll just say that in your opening remarks you had said that the summary of what we are hearing is in line with the summary of what you are hearing. I'm gratified to hear that because we have spent a lot of time as officials in the past months meeting with hundreds and hund