Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for having me, Mr. Nault. I'm sorry I was a bit late. It wasn't an accident, it was the John Tory traffic miracle in Toronto.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Fragiskatos, I believe at the height of the intimacy in trade terms between the United States and Canada, approximately 85% of Canada's foreign trade was with the United States, and roughly half that figure was the percentage of [Technical difficulty—Editor] tied up in that,

Foreign Affairs committee  That was magnified by that appalling episode with the red line, followed by triumphalist noises in Washington that without any violence at all they had succeeded in having all the sarin gas removed, which of course was not the case. The country was lied to by the Syrians and the

Foreign Affairs committee  As you know, there is always in the American administration some tension between those elements in the U.S. government and the Congress and the administration who put particular heavy emphasis on the observation of human rights in other countries and those who adopt a somewhat [T

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. McKay, I agree that it is difficult to perceive that, but I do believe it to be true on the basis of my experiences with him. We had him as a business partner in Chicago, where we owned the Sun-Times newspaper. I don't know if the committee knows that city well, but we had a

Foreign Affairs committee  I only heard the latter part of them, Scotty. I certainly agreed with what I heard. You and I usually agreed when we debated on CTV, other than who we wanted and expected to win the election.

Foreign Affairs committee  Do you wish me to speak?

Foreign Affairs committee  I do not consider myself completely qualified to offer advice on the tactics of which to do. I assume that we can prepare for both at the same time. I did say in my remarks with Scotty coming up to the election, and between the election and the inauguration, that Trump should be

Foreign Affairs committee  I have to say that I wasn't aware that I was expected to make an opening comment. I can certainly improvise one, but it would be rather platitudinous, and I don't want to inflict that on the committee. Would it be a dereliction if we just did without an opening comment? Perhaps I