International Trade committee  The problem with the cultural exemption in the original NAFTA was that it was simply incorporating into the terms of NAFTA the cultural exemption from the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. The scope of that exemption was taken from the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and it was

International Trade committee  Thank you. CTV paid a lot of money for the rights to broadcast the Super Bowl. They did so on the basis of the policy that said they could substitute.... Any Canadian watching it would have to see their commercials. The economic value to CTV was quite high. Some Canadians have c

International Trade committee  A good portion of the money goes to Canadian programming. Thank you.

International Trade committee  I will go first. I want to underline that copyright is about the rights of artists. It's about the rights of the individuals who create the works that are then exploited economically by others. Any increased protection of the rights of those who create those works is positive.

International Trade committee  It is a universal exemption. It's an exemption from all of the provisions. Let me briefly compare it with CETA. The difference with CETA, the difference between CETA and the CPTPP, is that the chapter-by-chapter cultural exemptions were mutual. Both Canada and Europe agreed tha

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  Thank you. It's interesting, because I know Michael Geist very well. He and I have been on the opposite side of many issues, but I don't really disagree with him on this one. The question you have to consider is the degree of threat that any retaliation clause represents. NAFTA

International Trade committee  Okay. The reason I'm raising CPTPP as an important issue here is that it's related to CUSMA. We all know it's inevitable that the United States will seek to rejoin CPTPP, and there is another principle in international trade law that Canada must enforce against what will be trem

International Trade committee  One sentence.

International Trade committee  With respect to Canadian culture, that would be the CPTPP, if we fail to ratify CUSMA. If we move expeditiously to ratify CUSMA, the far stronger culture provisions of CUSMA would prevail. Thank you.

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you, honourable members of the committee. This is at least the fourth time I've had the pleasure of appearing before this committee, following appearances in April 1999, December 2002 and May 2018. I think I appeared a couple of other time