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View Tracy Gray Profile
CPC (BC)
Thank you Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here. It's good to see you again, Mr. Forsyth.
As my first question, if Bill C-216 is adopted, could this potentially have a negative effect on supply-managed sectors, in your opinion?
Doug Forsyth
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Doug Forsyth
2021-06-11 14:14
Would it have a negative effect on supply-managed producers? I can't think of one off the top of my head, but maybe I'll ask if my colleagues from Agriculture can think of any.
Aaron Fowler
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Aaron Fowler
2021-06-11 14:14
I can't think of any obvious immediate negative impacts from the legislation on the supply-managed sectors.
Doug Forsyth
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Doug Forsyth
2021-06-11 14:14
As I mentioned in some of my opening remarks and in answers to other questions, I think it is quite probable that this would have an impact on some of our export sectors. In any negotiation, other countries will be looking to shrink the negotiating pie, as it were. They would look at key export areas of Canada and look to take them off the table as well.
From a negotiator's point of view, I think that would make sense. Whether they would do it or not, I don't know, but I think it is quite likely. Those are key export sectors of ours, and a trading partner would look at those with great interest.
View Tracy Gray Profile
CPC (BC)
Thank you.
I want to ask you this because of your experience negotiating the Canada-UK Trade Continuity Agreement last year.
Despite the U.K. being a large exporter of cheese worldwide, the negotiators were able to ensure no new market access to supply-managed sectors in this agreement. What is the process that the negotiators go through in order to prevent this from happening? I think you touched on it a little bit today, but is there anything else you want to add?
Doug Forsyth
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Doug Forsyth
2021-06-11 14:16
I'll highlight a few of the issues.
It very much starts with our looking at the world for our offensive and defensive interests in any negotiation. We look at where we are, what sectors we'd like to protect, what sectors we have to protect. Those are the issues that would go into our cabinet mandate. There are recommendations to the minister, and they would be elaborated on in a cabinet mandate.
The Canada-U.K. agreement, as I mentioned a couple of times, was certainly part and parcel of the constraints that the negotiating team faced and that I faced as chief negotiator. As you know, it was well respected throughout the negotiating process, and we were able to achieve an outcome that fully respected the policies of the supply-managed system.
View Tracy Gray Profile
CPC (BC)
Okay. Thank you very much.
We heard today from High Commissioner Goodale that it looks like the agreement between Canada and the U.K. will be accelerated, although U.K. Prime Minister Johnson told CBC a few weeks ago that he wants to see access for U.K. cheese in the Canadian market.
What action has the government directed you or our department to take on this issue?
Doug Forsyth
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Doug Forsyth
2021-06-11 14:17
I think we have not yet launched the bilateral negotiations between Canada and the U.K. We finished our consultations earlier in May. My understanding is that the U.K. is currently undergoing their consultations. We anticipate that they will be finished early in the summer.
We will—
Doug Forsyth
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Doug Forsyth
2021-06-11 14:17
I have not been advised of that. We will see.
We will put forward a mandate to government late in the summer or early in the fall, and then we will follow the tabling of treaty process as we move forward and provide the—
View Tracy Gray Profile
CPC (BC)
If I could just squeeze this in, would royal assent for Bill C-216 be helpful to you in the success of our negotiations with the U.K. to protect Canadian supply-managed sectors, or would you say that it will make no difference in the prioritization of protecting it?
Doug Forsyth
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Doug Forsyth
2021-06-11 14:18
Thank you for the question.
I don't think it will make any difference in the sense of prioritizing it. It may make it more difficult once the U.K. government sees that [Technical difficulty—Editor] issues are and they would [Technical difficulty—Editor]
View Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay Profile
BQ (QC)
On a point of order, Madam Chair.
The interpreters are signalling that there is a problem.
View Judy A. Sgro Profile
Lib. (ON)
Hold on, Mr. Forsyth. We seem to have a translation problem.
Mr. Forsyth, would you back up with that answer a bit and try it again, please?
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