International Trade committee  Sorry; if I may add, there is also the advantage that at least we do calculate employment impact, which we wouldn't be able to do if we assumed that employment is always full. In other words, standard models often have a much more detailed disaggregation of the economy, but bec

International Trade committee  If I may, I'll add, as I said earlier in response to Mr. Dhaliwal's question, that I have not read the study by Global Affairs Canada, but I just looked at the type of model they used, and it is exactly this model that assumes full employment in order to make its projection happe

International Trade committee  Thank you. I have not seen the report you mentioned. I would be happy to answer the question after I have seen it. However, if it is anything like the other studies that have been done on TPP, meaning if it uses the same model that has been used for every other standard study of

International Trade committee  To answer the second part of your question, it is normal for academic researchers not to speak for a university, because they speak individually for the research they do. The answer to your question about who commissioned the study is that nobody commissioned it. It was decided a

International Trade committee  Thank you for that question. We put in place a disclaimer because we did this work as an academic exercise as part of a research agreement between UNCTAD, the UN organization that specializes in trade, and Tufts University. This is part of a research project that I started as an

International Trade committee  I have another prior to this, on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and it's part of the same research project.