Finance committee  Sometimes it's important in life to look at the things where you can make a bigger difference fast. The trade balance is structural and very difficult. The thing where we can make a huge premium quickly, I think, is by increasing the opportunity to invest in one another's countri

Finance committee  I think it's critical to acknowledge the timing. If you look at life with a still photo, you will get a deceiving image. If you look at life with a video camera, where things have been and where things are going, you get a clearer image. We are in a very propitious time to do thi

Finance committee  Thank you very much.

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. Over the past 20 years, as we negotiated this accord, this was the greatest obstacle. Moreover, this accord is not a treaty or an agreement. If there were reasonable problems, we might in fact pause to reconsider. There is no reasonable obstacle, howe

Finance committee  In the course of developing trade and investment between any two territories, it's a natural progression to make it easier to exchange goods and services without punishing taxes. We're doing that by looking at Bill S-4. A foreign investment protection agreement is something tha

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. Traditionally there has been considerable interest in trade and investment in areas like IT, engineering and consulting services, environment-related services, and natural resources. In terms of investment in the two places, it creates an opportunity

Finance committee  Thank you Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I am very pleased to be here with you today, albeit in a different capacity. I served as the MP for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country for eight years, between 2008 and 2015, before being liberated by the electors

Finance committee  I am now practising international law with a firm named McMillan, which has offices in Hong Kong, Vancouver, Ottawa, and other places, but I am confident that the reason the committee invited me is that I resided in Taiwan for 10 years and did business throughout the Pacific Rim.

Finance committee  From 2013 through 2015, I headed the Canada-Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Group, known for its hard work, cross-party camaraderie, and productivity. In that group, we learned the virtues of the type of agreement you are considering today. Such agreements are typical signs of pr