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Foreign Affairs committee Thank you to the members for the opportunity. The amendment proposed in Bill C-47 is simply to add organizations into the existing language in the Export and Import Permits Act, because when we're considering brokering, brokering could cover the activities of partnerships and ot
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee The Export and Import Permits Act does not cover the activities of the crown, and as a crown corporation, the Canadian Commercial Corporation is not covered by the EIPA.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you. My name is Wendy Gilmour. I'm the director general for the trade and export controls bureau at Foreign Affairs.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee In establishing legal assessment criteria for the administration of export permit applications, the minister will be considering very similar criteria to what we already consider as part of the process. These, however, will be legally binding, so she must demonstrate that she has
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee We'll have to do, as a department, a full assessment of the implications of the act once Parliament decides exactly what to adopt. From an administrative standpoint we will be doing our very best to adhere to the public service standards we currently have for export permit appl
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee As I mentioned earlier to your colleague, I cannot speak about any specific Canadian company or specific case. I can speak about the elements of Bill C-47 and the establishment of a brokering regime, which would create the requirement for any Canadian citizen, permanent resident,
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee The U.S., do you mean?
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee I would just say that the U.S. has an export permit and export control system that is very comprehensive and already includes all of the elements in the treaty. They have an active brokering regime. They assess their export permits for considerations that are similar to ours and
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you very much for the question. It's actually a good segue back to respond to your question on the risk management frameworks, if I may. As with any regulatory program, we have relatively limited resources for the number of permits and applications we have to assess. The g
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee In terms of the industries or sectors that are affected, in Canada all Canadian industries that are in the business of exporting controlled goods are already subject to the Export and Import Permits Act and have been since 1947 or before. They are very familiar with our program.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee Canada is an export-driven economy. Trade is extremely important overall to the Canadian economy. The defence and security sector is a particular sector that is export driven. Approximately 60% of the revenue of the defence and security sector in Canada is derived from exports.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee I'll come back to your question.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee I support what Richard has said. The other thing to keep in mind is that our intent from the export control community, and it is a fairly wide multilateral community that co-operates on the establishment of effective export control regimes, is to broaden that to as many countrie
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee I think we'll start with Robert, to speak about regulation versus law.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour
Foreign Affairs committee In French, the term is courtage.
October 17th, 2017Committee meeting
Wendy Gilmour