Industry committee  Part of the service that the trade commissioner service offers is to assess for each individual client how ready they are for different markets. Depending on the type of business they're in, how regulated their product or service is, what type of business environment they face, t

Industry committee  I won't say that I'm an expert on the details of the CFIA's mandate, but I can say that they work extremely closely with our department and also with the federal market access secretariat, which is managed by the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food. In fact, CFIA has people w

Industry committee  The recognition that there is a lot of interplay between the work of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency here and our ability to access markets overseas has led, in recent years, to the creation of a dedicated market access secretariat. In fact, you have the Canadian Food Inspect

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. I can say that the Canada-Europe agreement, the CETA, includes a number of different mechanisms to deal with the reality that there are a great many regulations of interest to Canadian business in the EU. In the space of many of our big agri-food expo

Industry committee  As Ms. McRae was mentioning, the trade commissioner service is well positioned to work directly with Canadian businesses that are interested in getting into other markets. A lot of the concerns that are reported back to the department from clients are that, indeed, finding acces

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to be here today. I'll start by talking about the mandate of Global Affairs Canada and the relationship between our free trade agreements and regulations. This issue is relevant to the topic of the meeting. In terms of the type of work we do i