International Trade committee  That's correct. That's the long game in terms of resolving it: building the real capacity to fundamentally and to structurally impact. The export associations, producer associations.... The idea for the office came from Pulse Canada and Manitoba pork. They are already integrated

International Trade committee  Very quickly, under the U.S.-China phase one agreement, the Americans dictated what China has to do with MRLs, the maximum limits on beef and other items. I don't know that we can force them to take the Codex standard. They gave them one month to implement it and another month fo

International Trade committee  I think politically they have to be. You need that safety valve. I think that, as elected members of Parliament, you can realize the politics around this. Having the dispute settlement mechanism as a way to shift the spotlight from you to a third party may be useful and may be ne

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee. For 50 years, the Canada West Foundation has been the public policy research, dissemination, education and advocacy organization for the four western provinces. Our mission has been and remains the creation of a strong west in

Transport committee  That's correct. The European Union auditors did a study to benchmark the performance of transportation infrastructure planning in the EU. There were two Canadian academics who took part in the study. Of the countries they surveyed, Canada was the only one that didn't have permane

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank the honourable member from Essex for the question. In terms of 10 to 30 years—taking the bits in order—what the best practice shows internationally is that these are our competitors, this is what everyone has and this is the range used for Infrast

Transport committee  Okay. Infrastructure Australia provides assistance to municipalities so they are able to participate in national planning. This is something the Canada Infrastructure Bank was originally, potentially, envisioned to do, but it's half of the bank's mandate. It hasn't been fulfille

Transport committee  I won't elaborate on the fall. We have a full report out on that. Unfortunately, we couldn't make it available in French as well. We didn't submit it to the committee, but it's available online. In terms of planning, as the insurance company mentioned, the incorporation of analy

Transport committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you very much for inviting me to testify. I will testify in English. I'll be happy to try to answer your questions in French as well. The approach I will take with committee today is a little bit different. I like to come at this f

Industry committee  Can I continue?

Industry committee  I see. I will continue in English. Canada is in the process of considering entering negotiations on the DEPA, the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement that's coming out of Asia. You're going to have your hand forced. If you do not hand Canadian negotiators a set position in Can

Industry committee  We're getting ahead of ourselves. This gets to the question from the honourable member from Beaches—East York. Your hand is going to be forced. You're already talking about how we deal with things that were negotiated in the new NAFTA agreement and how we deal with things that w

Industry committee  If I may, on your first question, especially with the new NAFTA, the Americans, in the Library of Congress decision to exempt agricultural equipment, made a special case to prioritize agriculture. They recognized that agriculture is a different sort of industry and has different

Industry committee  Sure, I will, very quickly. The agricultural equipment acts in the provinces would likely have to be updated too, so there would need to be some coordination between the federal government and the provinces. We've already started the work of informing provincial legislatures an

Industry committee  I'm going to address the international trade aspect. On chapter 31, you're looking at a dispute settlement claim from the Americans under chapter 31. You're already facing this with the Americans over dairy TRQs. Others have been raised. The issue for the Americans, though, is