Finance committee  I can just walk through what was done previously, since we expect that it would follow a similar process. In October provisional safeguards were imposed. Provisional safeguards can be imposed under the law where the Minister of Finance makes a report to the Governor in Council

Finance committee  This is the tribunal process.

Finance committee  Yes, that's right. They would be conducting that. Yes, I think it's important to indicate that it's an arm's-length tribunal that reports to the government, but the government does not have a direct role in that process. Once the recommendation comes to the government, there is

Finance committee  That is the case, as happened last fall when provisional safeguards were undertaken. They were in place for the entire time that inquiry was taking place. Provisional safeguards, as Patrick noted, went until the end of April. The CITT issued its report early in April. So that wou

Finance committee  There are other colleagues in Finance who work on that issue so—

Finance committee  I will take that back. As I said, I am not prepared to speak on that today but I will take that back to colleagues.

Finance committee  We'll do that as a follow-up.

Finance committee  On the second part of the question, the elements within the customs tariff that are now included here.... I mentioned the safeguards. I mentioned where we're responding to the trade actions of another country. It can also be situations around where we have preferential treatment

Finance committee  It's in response to a couple of situations that have come up recently. One is the safeguards. In the course of consultations, it became quite clear that people were very interested in having us allocate a tariff rate quota. If we were going to impose one, we realized we didn't

Finance committee  There are references on pages 64 and 67 to the government's intention to ensure that trade is done in a responsible, rules-based way. I would note that the section 232 investigation, of course, began a good deal before the measures were imposed against Canada in June. The gover

Finance committee  You probably know more than I do about that.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Yes, that's correct. We have provisional safeguards currently in place on certain steel products. In consultations that we held ahead of imposing those safeguards, this was identified by stakeholders—both those asking for the safeguards to be imposed and those who had some conc

Finance committee  It doesn't change the ability of the minister to act, in terms of imposing a safeguard, because those are actually contained in the customs tariff. This is aiming to say that if we do impose a safeguard and it's in the form of a tariff rate quota, it gives the authority to the Mi

Finance committee  I'll just give an overview of a change to the Export and Import Permits Act. It's in clause 415 of the budget implementation act. The Export and Import Permits Act, or EIPA, provides the Minister of Foreign Affairs with the authority to control the import and export of goods thr