International Trade committee  There is a similarity between NAFTA and the Pacific Alliance. A lot of what you're seeing in the Pacific Alliance was taken from what they learned and what they saw in NAFTA, how successful we were in North America in creating an integration agenda that went beyond the agreement

International Trade committee  On the consultations, yes and no. You do reach groups to get input that are important and are involved in trade, but what's missing is the ability to use the consultations to meet with groups that haven't been participating in trade and have been marginalized—first nations, femal

International Trade committee  With the Pacific Alliance, the integration would allow us to move people within these countries more fluidly. It would also allow Canadian companies that have staff in these countries to move that staff more fluidly without the necessity for, say, work visas or labour decisions t

International Trade committee  Absolutely. Take the moving of people, for example: with this we're talking about business professionals, students, and the like. For a Canadian enterprise like Scotiabank, the ability to have staff based in Peru move through any of the countries seamlessly, not needing work perm

International Trade committee  Certainly. I would also put the Pacific Alliance in that model. The alliance is a bit different. It's a trade integration group. It's countries that have had a closer relation that are looking to build upon that. In some of the other agreements—CETA, the TPP—the countries haven't

International Trade committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to appear before you again. Let me start by reiterating what Mr. Innes said about the importance of following agreements like the TPP and, of course, NAFTA. This morning, I submitted a briefing no