Foreign Affairs committee  Also, there are the timelines. The administration says it wants to move quickly. It's 300 days statutorily under TPA: 90 days here, 60 days there, 150 days there, 75 days there. You can project this with the U.S. mid-term elections and the Mexican presidential elections, which ar

Foreign Affairs committee  The scale-up is part of it. It's the information. With the North American infrastructure bank the financing is a small element that we have with the Americans along the border. The bigger element is information. We talk about integrated supply and production chains. We don't know

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me make the case very quickly. When we use the terms “bank” and “infrastructure”, people automatically go to financing, but the term “bank” is used more in the sense of the Inter-American Development Bank or the World Bank. The bank has a financing function, but it also has a

Foreign Affairs committee  All countries subsidize agriculture, so let's take this away from the Americans, and let's talk about Canada and Canadian interests. Our interest is in having a dairy sector that can compete globally, that can do what Australia has done, what New Zealand has done. Look at China a

Foreign Affairs committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair. Hello, everyone. Mr. Chair, I would like to thank the committee for inviting me to appear again. I have no idea how much time I have, but I am sure it will be enough. So yes, from western Canada you will get an introduction and a welcome in French. I