Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for having me. Thank you for sharing with me what's important to you and your constituents, because it's obviously essential for me and my whole team to make sure that we are very up to date with what you're thinking about and what you're work

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Is it on the gas on the issue of buy American?

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I will just say that there are a lot of gas pedals, so it is absolutely, 100%. Again, not to be a broken record about this, but we are in a general way, and have been for many months, reaching out here in Washington—as are, obviously colleagues in Ottawa—to the new administration

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Yes, I think there always is. Something that's been pretty obvious to me since I've been here is that the Canada-U.S. relationship is broad. There are literally millions of interactions between Canadians and Americans every day, from business to families to academics to—in othe

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Thank you, Mr. Housefather. I know you've been asking all of the witnesses these legal questions, and I fear I may give you an equal amount of dissatisfaction in my answers. These are all important questions. I'm not denying that. On the first question, I have no real comment o

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  The situation in China with respect to human rights abuses generally and with Uighurs in particular was discussed in a series of meetings last week. We shared perspectives on that. The U.S. administration didn't really raise Canada's position at all.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  No.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I would say that Canada's concerns, whether with the economic pressures of China, human rights violations or security, are something that we discuss with the Biden administration and that we discussed with the previous administration on a regular basis. Between me and my team, ev

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Yes. Just to be super clear, since I've been here in D.C., which is I guess three and a half years now, advocating for Canadian energy infrastructure, our oil and gas sector, has been a major focus of this embassy. We have an entire section that deals with energy, and individuals

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  In order to be quick, I'm going to answer you in English. I think it's important to focus on the positive and to say that keeping the supply chains open and keeping these very mutually beneficial relationships going creates jobs. Cutting them absolutely leads to the loss of jobs

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I'm going to answer your question by being a bit more general, because I think the answer to your question isn't specific to environmental supply chains. I think it's an answer that applies to all Canada-U.S. trade. Buy American policies are put in place because there's a percep

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Again, I would get back to what buy America is versus buy American. The only policies that apply to Canada are buy America. At this point, they apply to steel, iron and some manufactured goods. We are living with those. If there is an effort to ratchet those up, we will absolute

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Sure. On the CPTPP, my understanding of this.... We'll know more as U.S. Trade Representative Tai gets into place and we have more conversations with her, but my understanding is that right now the U.S. priority is not to negotiate international trade agreements really at all. T

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Regarding this issue, we always start by emphasizing that buy American policies are often designed with the idea that they'll create jobs for Americans. In terms of trade between Canada and the United States, cutting off the supply chain would have the exact opposite effect. That

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I would say that if Canada is very focused on making sure there are aspects of our relationship that are understood and there are aspects of what's been going on in Canada over the last four years since this president and some of his colleagues have been gone...there are things w