Foreign Affairs committee  It has become increasingly challenging for us to balance Canadian export interests in military goods and technologies, as well as continuing to apply a rigorous risk-assessment framework using the criteria laid out in the Arms Trade Treaty to determine if a potential export of a

Foreign Affairs committee  To take a quick step back in terms of the timeline, in October 2019 the Minister of Foreign Affairs, after Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria, suspended the issuance of new permits to Turkey until such time that we, the department, working with our like-minded partners, c

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, since April 2020, a small number of export permits to the region have been approved under those exceptional circumstances—certainly fewer than 20, and the vast majority of those permit applications that were approved by the minister fall into the category of permit ame

Foreign Affairs committee  Through the review of export permits to Turkey that was released by the minister yesterday, we found credible evidence that Canadian military technologies were used in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, over the duration of four months during which the department conducted the review of export permits to Turkey.... I should start by saying that we didn't only review the permits that were suspended in October of last year by Minister Champagne. Those were the permits t

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, the review of export permits to Turkey over the period of October to December of last year determined that the Turkish UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles, were used in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in this part of that conflict. Through the review of the Turkish permits

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, as part of the export permit application process, the Canadian company, working in this case with the Turkish consignee, was required as part of the export permit application to provide end-user and end use statements concerning who would receive the technology in Turk

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the invitation to appear today to discuss Canada's export control regime. As you're aware, the former minister of Foreign Affairs and the directors general of trade and export controls bureau as well as the European affairs

International Trade committee  The side letters that relate to the auto sector with Malaysia, Australia and Japan are fully enforceable through the dispute settlement chapter of the agreement.

International Trade committee  We have never negotiated these types of side letters with the countries in the CPTPP before. We negotiated these legal instruments in order for them to be fully enforceable. We believe they are fully enforceable through the CPTPP's dispute settlement mechanism and through the del

International Trade committee  Maybe I will just provide some general reactions to the question, and then we can provide supplementary answers in written form. Yes, under the CPTPP there will be limited market access across all supply-managed sectors through the form of 22 tariff rate quotas. These tariffs wi

International Trade committee  No, it isn't. In the case of CPTPP, we haven't yet finalized how the costs of the joint commission will be reported. We don't know whether it will be by some period of time stretching over two calendar years or by calendar year. We haven't finalized those details yet. This is typ

International Trade committee  The information would certainly be found in our department's budgetary processes, but it's not typically published in any other free trade agreements.

International Trade committee  The information isn't broken out like this. They don't separate. In another joint commission that administers the implementation of a free trade agreement, the costs of the joint commission are certainly published, but not the specific costs of Canada. To clarify another questio

International Trade committee  That would be helpful, yes.