International Trade committee  Exactly. If you go back to the original GATT agreements, when they were being negotiated, tariffs can be a factor, of course. Countries can use tariffs to develop their own industries. We've done this in history often. Sometimes, however, tariffs can get in the way of a particula

International Trade committee  Not on the evidence; there's a kind of strange assumption that trade equals trade deals, as if somehow, before we had trade deals, there was no international trade. Well, there was, obviously. The average tariff barrier between us and the European Union, before we got into CETA,

International Trade committee  First of all, the Canadian government did not ask for the removal of ISDS in the new NAFTA; the U.S. government did. The Canadian government agreed to it somewhat reluctantly. I'm a little bit nervous about what they will do with the U.K. What they've talked about is replacing I

International Trade committee  I'd be happy to.

International Trade committee  Thank you. That's a very intriguing question. One of the things we've seen for probably 30 years now is that any type of planning for our economy has been signing another trade deal, which actually, every time we do that, further eliminates or limits our ability to actually plan

International Trade committee  There are two things. The core issue of ISDS has always been that international corporations have more rights that challenge domestic government than the citizens of the country do. That just strikes me as so absurd from the get-go that I'm not sure how we ever got those into a t

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, and thank you for this opportunity to speak to you this morning. Let me start with what I think is a very important point that hasn't been covered yet, which is that when we get into looking at any potential new trade deals labelling is really important. I