Finance committee  If someone from Taiwan comes to Canada and claims that the accord with China apples to him, would we agree? I don't know. We would perhaps have to ask a lawyer since this pertains to Canada's tax regime. I can say, however—to repeat some of what Mr. Houlden said earlier—that th

Finance committee  Not to my knowledge, no. I'm checking with colleagues who have a longer historical memory on this than I do, but as far as I know, no. As I mentioned earlier, we have a whole series of arrangements with Taiwan on a wide range of subjects, and I don't believe any of them ever crea

Finance committee  From our perspective, no, we're very comfortable with this going forward.

Finance committee  I will answer your question and, if I may, I will also pick up on some of what Ms. Alepin said about China's possible reaction. Our current relationship with Taiwan is somewhat complicated. The agreement was in fact signed by the two offices. The staff of the Canadian office in

Finance committee  I couldn't comment on what constitutes a sufficient amount of activity. I can say, as I mentioned earlier, that it is a fairly significant trading partner for us in Asia. It's our twelfth-largest trading partner overall and our fifth-largest in Asia.

Finance committee  Just to clarify, I don't believe I did mention either FIPAs or FTAs in my remarks, but they are certainly types of economic agreements that we have with different countries and partners. Yes, Global Affairs Canada, as the department responsible for our international trade polic

Finance committee  I'm not a trade policy expert, so I wouldn't want to get too deep into the details of FIPAs. What I would say on those is that for those agreements, while we do have some relatively standard language and approaches for FIPA that we will usually use as a starting point, the decis

Finance committee  You may have noticed that more commonly we have ADTAs. The “A” stands for an agreement, so those are formal agreements between two governments. In this case we recognize a single China and therefore we don't have a formal government-to-government relationship with the Taiwanese g

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, honourable members, thank you for this invitation to appear before you today. I am pleased to be here today to speak to you about Bill S-4, An Act to implement a Convention and an Arrangement for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion wit

Foreign Affairs committee  Just to clarify maybe a little, there have been a suite of UN Security Council resolutions and sanctions associated with those. With each resolution, we've then implemented measures under the UN Act. We've been implementing that as they go along. Those all relate to non-prolifera

Foreign Affairs committee  There have been 12 since the regulations were put in place.

Foreign Affairs committee  I can't give you too much detail on them because the individual requests are private. That's because, in some instances, there might be commercial considerations. However, I'd say that in almost all instances these are around humanitarian goods. In most cases, we are talking abou

Foreign Affairs committee  It's the minister.

Foreign Affairs committee  As far as I know, I don't think there's any.... Yes. There's no particular restriction on who could—

Foreign Affairs committee  Basically any Canadian organization or individual can make a request. The case here is in relation to North Korea. Any individual or organization that wanted, for whatever reason, to export to North Korea or to have some financial transaction or any other activity that's preclude