Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. As the questioner rightly pointed out, there are a few areas of importance. Canadian exports have importance to the Chinese marketplace, and we have had some challenges with those exports over the last little while. I'll start with canola

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't think we have a comment, unless you're looking for our opinion on it, but I think we have indicated that it's legally unnecessary due to the fact that the Constitution is always upheld and the proposed clause appears to add an additional legal req

International Trade committee  I sincerely hope so. I sincerely hope that small businesses like that would want to take advantage of the Canada-U.K. trade agreement and the bilateral agreement that will follow. We need to hear from them. We need to hear about some of the challenges they face and the opportunit

International Trade committee  I'm happy to clarify that. There will be a website, and an official launch process through Canada Gazette, but there will be a web link, etc., that will come out following that, which provides an address for folks. At the end of the day, if anybody wanted to call me, they could

International Trade committee  I think so. Whenever it was—I can't recall the exact date—I was here. It was when I first appeared before the committee.

International Trade committee  I don't know if I would have expected it; I think I would have hoped. I think the Canadian Parliament needs to review the legislation. It needs to review the bill. It needs the time to do that. All I can do is negotiate the agreement and present it as completed. Parliamentarian

International Trade committee  It definitely has been my experience that it varies. Certainly a Canadian Parliament, each Parliament, in fact, needs to do its due diligence. It needs to do its proper review of the agreements. It very much varies. We have our process in Canada. Other trading partners have thei

International Trade committee  Sure. Thank you for the question. I will do my best with it. There is a formal process, and I think it starts with the application, the formal indication. A number of countries have indicated informally that, yes, they want to join or they might want to join or they're explorin

International Trade committee  That's correct. What we had said and what witnesses said earlier this week is as true for this agreement as it is for the other ones, CETA and WTO.

International Trade committee  The agreement doesn't.... The trade agreement in itself neither protects nor stops the deliveries from happening. It provides for the duty-free flow of goods between the two countries. To the extent that vaccines are covered by that, yes, it's covered.

International Trade committee  I would have to give it some further thought, but I think the reasons for the U.K. to come back to the table on a bilateral basis would continue to apply regardless of whether the CPTPP negotiations were ongoing or not.

International Trade committee  I'm sorry. What I was referring to was that the reasons for them to come back to the agreement are the same ones that a previous questioner asked me about: the commitment to do so within three years, the accumulation provision and the cheese provision. Those are the three reason

International Trade committee  No, it has not—not to my knowledge.

International Trade committee  I'm not sure. There will be some internal discussion on that. It could well be me, but I haven't been informed of that yet.

International Trade committee  If I understood the question correctly, when did I first...?