International Trade committee  No, Madam Chair. I will be here to answer questions, thank you.

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Forsyth. We do have a robust suite of consultative tools that we use to engage with agriculture stakeholders in the context of all of our trade negotiations. For primary interaction we have the agricultural trade negotiations consultative group. We use that group

International Trade committee  Thank you, Steve. Madam Chair, I'll take a run at that question. We would be of the view that there are extensive opportunities available for agricultural exporters in Canada's agriculture, food, fish and seafood sector in the United Kingdom market, both as a result of mainta

Industry committee  Thank you. My name is Aaron Fowler. I'm Canada's chief agriculture negotiator from AFC. The export monitoring provisions and export thresholds that are established for skim milk powder under this agreement are unusual. They're not akin to similar provisions in our other FTAs. T

Agriculture committee  We were very closely engaged with the chicken sector, both producers and processors, throughout the negotiations. We were well aware of concerns with importations of spent fowl coming in from the United States. It's an issue of circumvention of the import controls that underpin t

Agriculture committee  Canadian stakeholders would not generally engage with the committee. The committee is three parties to the agreement. It is the body where we meet to discuss issues related to the agricultural provisions that are contained in the agreement. Several improvements have been made, in

Agriculture committee  To understand why we ended up with this provision—which is a very unusual provision—you really have to understand the nature of the U.S. concerns that were being expressed with respect to Canada's supply management system for dairy, and in particular the concerns that were linked

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. It is a good question. They are often referred to as caps. We do not refer to them as caps. They are not a cap: Canadian exporters are free to continue exporting beyond the threshold amount that is set out in the agreement, but for volumes that excee

Agriculture committee  I was not part of Canada's agricultural negotiating team for those FTAs.

Agriculture committee  The sanitary and phytosanitary measures chapter of CUSMA reinforces and builds upon provisions that are contained in the original NAFTA, as well as in the WTO SPS Agreement. The outcome maintains the parties' sovereign right to protect human, animal or plant life or health, and r

Agriculture committee  There is incremental market access provided through the FTA. I'd like to start by saying, though, that the maintenance of the existing market access into both the United States and Mexico was by far the most important outcome of this FTA for Canada's agricultural sector. We produ

Agriculture committee  This is an unusual provision. I am not aware of any other similar provision in any of Canada's FTAs that would impose a restriction on the global exports of a commodity. It was concluded in the context of this agreement because it was the best option we were able to identify to

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. It's difficult to say what the impact of this particular provision will be five years from now. I think it's important to recall that the export monitoring commitments that Canada agreed to apply exclusively to three particular categories of dairy pr

International Trade committee  No, just to say that the dairy outcome overall was a very carefully and delicately put together balance of concessions and obligations. Given that no additional U.S. requests fell into the area of Canadian agriculture as part of the protocol, we did not consider that we would see

International Trade committee  I am aware of no similar provision in any of our other trade agreements.