International Trade committee  We can certainly look at what we have. We were assured that we would not be affected by a number of our interlocutors on a number of occasions. I'm certain we can provide that information.

International Trade committee  We can certainly take a look at that. We did talk to the EU at length about those particular conditions. We never saw them as a particular concern from our perspective, and we were assured from the EU side that they would not be a concern either.

International Trade committee  No, I did not say that. We did do analysis on that.

International Trade committee  Yes. That is our understanding.

International Trade committee  I'm afraid I don't have a specific date either. We did make the request on a number of occasions at a number of different levels for the EU to put us on the list of exempted countries. They did not do that. They didn't make any changes to that list until quite a bit later on, and

International Trade committee  I'm sure we could provide that information, yes.

International Trade committee  I'm sorry. Who was that question directed to?

International Trade committee  Thank you. We may also want to bring in our colleagues from ISED for some of these questions, because this really isn't within the mandate of what we do at Global Affairs in terms of our efforts on trade negotiations and those kinds of issues in trade agreements. Vaccines were

International Trade committee  Yes, I'm in the same position as Mr. de Boer. I don't have any information on the actual contracts either.

International Trade committee  I think the challenge here is really not with the European Union. They have been doing everything we have been asking them to do in terms of ensuring that we would be getting any deliveries that we would be expecting, and we have not had interruptions as a result of that. The d

International Trade committee  It does happen, but in a different kind of context. In addition to the general monitoring and reporting function that every WTO member has—to report significant amounts of information to the WTO for examination by others—we also have a narrower review of each individual member un

International Trade committee  Yes. For any kind of free trade agreement that is negotiated, there is a process under the regional trade agreements at the WTO to review those trade agreements and determine if they meet the requirements that a trade agreement must meet in order to be considered a valid trade ag

International Trade committee  We would certainly be happy to consult with those groups to talk about this issue, to start to see if we can find paths forward. We recognize the challenge of this and it's essential that we find solutions to it, so we're very happy to engage in those discussions and to continue

International Trade committee  Yes, there is, but I have to confess that I don't know what it is offhand. It's scaled to the economic size of each of the memberships, so the larger economies pay the most and we pay somewhat less.

International Trade committee  Yes, it is contentious, and the actual discussion is more in the nature of yes, we recognize there are developed countries and there are developing countries, and we're not necessarily arguing with that distinction. Where the debate more recently has been is that there are signif