International Trade committee  I would back what Carlo was saying. I think we've been remiss with respect to the opportunities that we share, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that we're not establishing those links properly. I am very happy to hear that a committee group is going to come down to Mexic

International Trade committee  I was a congressman for a centre-left party in the previous legislature. In terms of freedom to organize and to strike, those freedoms are perfectly safeguarded. The thing is that the organized labour movement has been more about filling their own pockets than it has about protec

International Trade committee  To come back to country-of-origin labelling, it's something we can pick up, as well as procurement. Government procurement is something we need to work together with the United States on.

International Trade committee  The very first thing that we need to be very clear on, both our countries, is that NAFTA without the United States will work with Mexico and Canada, period. We need to be very clear. It's in the treaty that if somebody pulls out, that's fine, the other two maintain that same rela

International Trade committee  Yes, we have. In fact, for us 23 states in the U.S. are either number one or two. We have identified those stakeholders. Unfortunately, and I think this is true across the board, we have not done nearly enough. The efforts have been infinitesimal, in my view, in terms of actually

International Trade committee  Yes, I mean, I keep telling our members of SRE, which is our foreign affairs, and also commerce that I want to see bumper stickers on F-150s saying, “This job is a NAFTA job”.

International Trade committee  Sorry. I'd put myself on mute so that Armando could reply.

International Trade committee  Basically, I've been dealing with our senate, which would be in charge of ratifying TPP. It is currently not a priority, even though I completely agree with you, sir. I think it is something that we should ratify immediately. I think we should take a leadership role. I do know

International Trade committee  Thank you, Ms. Ramsey, first of all, for sharing a vision. I grew up partly in Canada, and these are values that I certainly learned in Canada when I was a little boy. I appreciate hearing that as often as I can. With respect to human rights, it is a huge issue. Certainly, there

International Trade committee  I would start by saying that Canada and Mexico, especially right now, are the adults in the room. I don't see it so much as a counterbalance, inasmuch as we are defending something that is very profoundly an American value. In many ways right now, it is in our hands to pick up th

International Trade committee  Funnily enough, our main priorities are very much in line with that page and a half that USTR Lighthizer mentioned. We see an opportunity to modernize the trade agreement. We are interested in the phytosanitary measures, and there are amazing opportunities in customs procedures,

International Trade committee  Oh, I'm sorry.

International Trade committee  Is that to me or Armando?

International Trade committee  The quick answer is that we have engaged very poorly. There are millions of relationships that are going on, and they are very localized. Our border cities, our sister cities, unfortunately, have the tendency to look up and down. We call it the silo mentality. They look north and

International Trade committee  It's in Mexico State, which is actually the largest state in Mexico. Mexico State has 16 million inhabitants, so it's a very important election. It's also a bellwether election. It's a state that the PRI has never lost. To be frank, it plays horribly. Perhaps the great advantage