International Trade committee  We also talked about the need for action as it relates to planting and growing canola—and that is an option. The farmers want to go forward with that process. Explain to me how long it takes to grow and then after that—I'm from northern Ontario, and we have farmers around in vari

International Trade committee  Thank you very much to all our witnesses for coming in today. I'll start with Mathew from the Canadian manufacturers association. You made a fairly powerful statement. You felt that the removal of the section 232 tariff onto itself was more important—and I'm going to paraphras

International Trade committee  Some of the people early on had suggested settling for a quota. As well, the Ford government actually even stated that we should have removed our counter-tariffs as some kind of gesture to the United States that.... I don't know. I can't follow the logic, actually. In going about

International Trade committee  Thank you. Brian, you as well as Mathew mentioned your support for Minister Morneau's Bill C-101. In particular, we're asking for unanimous consent so that we can get it through expeditiously. Can you explain to this committee the importance of Bill C-101 as it relates to gettin

International Trade committee  Yes. It's Bill C-101 about the surge, the safeguards.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much. Thank you very much to the presenters today. I'll pick up on what the last panel was talking about, and that is, how critical it was to have the lifting of section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum and how important it was to have the lifting of the counte

International Trade committee  I agree with that. I'm going to Toronto now. Mr. Adams, I'm glad to see that you could make it into work after that big traffic jam for the Raptors party. For you, sir, the chair mentioned that we met with Honda and Toyota as well. In some of the conversations I've had not only

International Trade committee  Thank you very much. I guess the obvious question is what I asked before about section 232 and if it were ever extended to the auto industry, the ramifications...just to get it on record from you, please.

International Trade committee  With the auto manufacturers and also the parts, and overall on your opinions of the deal as it is today versus where we were 10 months ago, would you suggest that we do this as soon as possible? What kinds of time frames would you suggest the government follow in a ratification p

International Trade committee  Thank you very much. Thanks to everyone for their presentations. This government has consulted broadly and I was glad to hear from Chief Perry that the first nations, for the first time, have been consulted in a meaningful way in a trade deal. That was very good to hear. Ch

International Trade committee  That's very good. Keeping on the consultation theme, I'm going to go to Angelo from Unifor. Between February 2017 and November 30, 2018, there were 1,245 stakeholder engagements with first nations, unions, businesses, organizations, etc. How important was that consultation du

International Trade committee  Can you clarify that lack of consultation?

International Trade committee  Are you talking about the previous government, just for clarification?

International Trade committee  Just specifically, can you speak to the importance of the provisions in the rules of origin that emphasized high-wage labour?