International Trade committee  To my knowledge, nobody ever refused a meeting or a phone call, or whatever.

International Trade committee  To my knowledge, none of my team ever refused to either meet or have a phone call, or anything.

International Trade committee  I don't know exactly what testimony you're referring to and what they were raising.

International Trade committee  Thank you. That's helpful. As I was saying in my opening presentation about access for Canadians to new markets, we are hearing and we have heard not universally but almost universally support for the TPP. There are two reasons for that. One is that there are some new significa

International Trade committee  Possibly. As I say, my understanding of projecting the drug price impacts for the TPP is that at this time there are many variables at play that will determine what will happen. Some of them have to do with domestic policy and federal-provincial co-operation in this area. Some of

International Trade committee  Will it cause drug prices to increase? Is that your question?

International Trade committee  There are two aspects to the answer. Let me start by saying that we've heard the same thing as you. There is concern on the subject. The first thing to clarify is that the changes to the TPP to grant an additional two years of protection for certain drugs, are the same changes c

International Trade committee  Is it a problem vis-à-vis the TPP?

International Trade committee  No, because our responsibilities toward our international partners are what they are. It's up to us how we take them into account here in Canada. If there are challenges to achieving a federal-provincial agreement on the subject, that situation will not have been created by the T

International Trade committee  As I said earlier, it's clear that the CETA is the agreement that has enabled us to go the furthest in terms of giving the governments the power to regulate, and that gives us the most assurance that the process is independent, clear and fair. I think the CETA is the high-water

International Trade committee  Whether or not there would be a regulatory chill in Canada in relation to the existence of ISDS and TPP or NAFTA or CETA or any of our other agreements I think is really a question for the governments that are regulating. I personally doubt very much that governments will not reg

International Trade committee  First, just to be crystal clear, the government hasn't taken a position on that. Isn't that right?

International Trade committee  The answer is that renegotiation is something that the U.S. administration has said publicly and consistently is not on the table.

International Trade committee  They have their own domestic process that they're going through. A lot of the debates they are having have to do with how the agreement will be implemented. The administration is talking about how the agreement will be implemented to address some of the points that have been rais

International Trade committee  No, we haven't.