Finance committee  At the moment, as I understand it, as of March of this year, it has become unfunded. It is still authorized, but it's not funded.

Finance committee  No, the funding at the moment in there, I believe, is around $13 million. We are asking in our submission that we should look at funding it to $20 million a year over the next five years. That's what we're asking for; that's not what it is right now. I think at the moment it's on

Finance committee  Yes, sir. Marine Atlantic is a very interesting case. The Shipbuilding Association has advocated for the national shipbuilding procurement strategy for quite some time. It looks as if we are almost there. When we made that advocacy initially, when we looked at Canadian governmen

Finance committee  Shipbuilding was excluded from the North American Free Trade Agreement, essentially because of an American regulation called the Jones Act. It states that in order to build a ship to be used within the United States, it must be built in the United States, crewed in the United Sta

Finance committee  The problem we have with Europe is that most of the countries we deal with have very mature industries. Most of these industries have been well subsidized and well funded by their governments. Now they're free traders. It's amazing to me how countries that have been given subsidi

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Peter Cairns. I am the president of the Shipbuilding Association of Canada. Shipbuilding is a hot topic right now, and I am sure there is no one in this room who hasn't heard of the national shipbuilding procurement strategy. I am not

International Trade committee  Let me answer your first question first. It would be nice if we had a Jones Act.

International Trade committee  I know there are a lot of people in this country—not only shipbuilders but shipowners—who would appreciate that. We almost have one, to be very fair. It's called the Coasting Trade Act, and it protects those who actually operate ships in this country. But we didn't put the ship

International Trade committee  One of the interesting things about the shipbuilding industry—and this is where we're completely different from anybody at this table—is that we're not in the WTO. We have no rules. There are no WTO rules that really apply to us. We are the last of the wild west shootouts. Countr

International Trade committee  So have we, actually, in shipbuilding. We've been well represented by our negotiators, actually. I think the problem is that we just have a very big gap to bridge.

International Trade committee  Thank you, sir. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to speak with you today about the proposed Canada-Korea free trade agreement. My remarks are based on the assumption that free trade must also be fair trade. This is a key is