International Trade committee  I will just say that it was a real pleasure and that it would also be my pleasure to come back at any time, even to answer the hard questions from Mr. Tremblay.

International Trade committee  I'll answer your second question first. In terms of timing, by the end of the year, members will be working on concepts and ideas that, by January, will form the basis for concrete proposals to address the dispute resolution system by 2024. So by the end of the year, we'll be l

International Trade committee  As I said earlier, the dispute settlement system is one of the major pillars of the WTO. Being able to resolve issues and disputes between members remains very important to the organization. There's no doubt about that. All but one of the WTO members—and I'm talking about the Uni

International Trade committee  Before the agreement there were not comprehensive disciplines on subsidies. With the fisheries subsidies agreement, we actually have enforceable rules that regulate this area, and I won't go through the three pillars that we already talked about before on the agreement. Before,

International Trade committee  That's correct.

International Trade committee  The good news is that in the case of the United States, we have different forums that we can use. We do have the new NAFTA, the CUSMA, which we can use with softwood lumber in particular. Again, I think it's important to be frank. Is not having a dispute settlement system with

International Trade committee  Not to be too blunt, but it has not been since the appellate body was blocked by the United States that we have not found a solution for softwood lumber. The softwood lumber dispute has been going on for decades. It is not the case that if we just had a functioning appellate body

International Trade committee  That's absolutely correct. The first softwood lumber agreement was indeed a bilateral solution that we reached with the United States. When that solution expired, we were not able to reach a new settlement with the United States. We continue to work on all fronts, frankly, to fi

International Trade committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Savard‑Tremblay. I really don't know if it's going to end up in our backyard, because there's nothing to stop member countries from bringing disputes to the WTO. That is happening with softwood lumber. Canada says the softwood lumber issue is ridi

International Trade committee  Maybe I'll do it in English. I'm sorry that I'm a little bit long-winded. I don't know if it will be a case, and it's not because we don't anticipate cases; it's just because, as I said, nothing prevents somebody from bringing a case. Could somebody bring a case? Absolutely. Do

International Trade committee  Let me first say that I think that dissecting our Deputy Prime Minister's speech is probably best done with her in the room to be able to speak to what she meant, to not paraphrase, and to really have a discussion with her on what that all means. What I can say, frankly, from my

International Trade committee  I hope it's not of the same shape, because if things stay the same forever, that doesn't do us all any good. As the world changes—

International Trade committee  Absolutely it will be, if we do our jobs correctly. If we are able to respond to the changes and the issues that are arising today that are of importance to all of us around the world—to our businesses, our citizens and to our consumers—and if we are actually able to use the gl

International Trade committee  I knew you were going to ask me what case it was, and I can't remember. I will look it up and come back to you. I can't remember what the case is, because it's upcoming with the MPIA. I'm sorry, but what was the second part of your question?

International Trade committee  I would say it's still effective, because while the United States is a user of the system, they haven't “appealed into the void”, so to speak. That's what we call it here. It's not the case that they are trying to proactively agitate the system by appealing into the void, knowing