Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Good work on that.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Freeland. My question concerns the renegotiation of NAFTA. First, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on the great success of these negotiations. We know that access to the U.S. market is essential for our businesses and our econo

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I just want to reflect on what was said here. The OECD produces a report. It has an annual global anti-corruption and integrity forum that produces a report every year. They do a very in-depth study on this. To Mr. O'Toole's point that they don't have the resources a

Foreign Affairs committee  As you know, they killed a Canadian citizen in cold blood. That was brought up by the—

Foreign Affairs committee  It highlights the challenges, that he's trying to speak out, and.... I'm not going to get into the politics of what he was trying to do; I assume he was trying to help, but he misstepped, or something like that. I guess it shows the challenges. We would be in the same boat. Let

Foreign Affairs committee  You have the same challenge yourself. I assume you want to speak. You've had to make decisions. Do you speak out loud and clear, or do you try to play along? What answer have you come to?

Foreign Affairs committee  —because they're hoping that by keeping quiet it might—

Foreign Affairs committee  So even among yourselves, you're all challenged to try to find the right way.

Foreign Affairs committee  Could I ask how many of you there are?

Foreign Affairs committee  So there are 15 of you on record. What countries are they from?

Foreign Affairs committee  There are actually, then, quite a few countries impacted by this. Has there been any coordinated effort whereby the countries that are impacted got together and said that they were going to lever their coordinated efforts against...?

Foreign Affairs committee  Could you repeat that?

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  You said you want to raise the cost of their doing this. They're doing it with impunity right now in saying, “Do whatever you want; you can't hurt us.” If these countries were to get together and say they were going to raise the cost, as you said, how would they be able to colle

Foreign Affairs committee  If we were to take the Magnitsky sanctions and say that we should coordinate this, we should all act in parallel—