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View Ben Lobb Profile
CPC (ON)
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2021-06-11 14:04
Could I ask for one distinction on that?
I don't doubt we put it on the table and I don't know if you're prepared to say this publicly, but I don't think Donald Trump and his negotiators put buy America and softwood lumber on the table. Are you saying that they put them on the table in the negotiations, or did we ask for it in the negotiations?
Doug Forsyth
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Doug Forsyth
2021-06-11 14:04
Thank you for the clarification.
No, what I'm saying, in fact, is that they were part and parcel of the broader dynamics of the negotiation. As I said, I wasn't there, so I can't say specifically that the United States ever said “no softwood lumber”. I'm saying that when we started, we started with 100% of the issues on the table and then narrowed them down. I think it became clear as time went on that the Government of the United States did not want to discuss government procurement at all, nor deal with softwood lumber in the context of the USMCA Canada-U.S. negotiation.
View Ben Lobb Profile
CPC (ON)
View Ben Lobb Profile
2021-06-11 14:05
Humour me on this one. I'm sure I've asked you this one before.
In the CPTPP, if we're going to start negotiations again with the U.S. and with the U.K. in regard to access to supply management, how do you start the negotiations? I'm sure you've already talked to the dairy farmers and the chicken farmers and all that. We're not going to grant any new access to the United States or the U.K., so how do you do that when you go into it? How are you going to make that happen? It seems to me as though we're starting a negotiation by saying they're not getting any new access when we start this renegotiation of the CPTPP.
Doug Forsyth
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Doug Forsyth
2021-06-11 14:05
The CPTPP, as you folks are well aware, is already in place. It has been agreed to by the CPTPP members. Anyone that wants to accede to it—and that would include the United Kingdom and the U.S., since they are not party to the agreement—would have to accept the terms and conditions as they are, and that includes the market access conditions. That includes the broader pieces, the parts that everyone has already agreed to, as well as the market access components to it. You're absolutely right. We have made market access concessions that include all of the tariff rate quotas in the supply-managed area, and access to it is open to CPTPP members. The new members would be able to access that same amount, not more.
Doug Forsyth
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Doug Forsyth
2021-06-11 14:06
It would depend. That would certainly be part of the negotiation in terms of what they would put on the table. Again, they have not asked or requested to join the agreement. Different people think different things about whether they will or they won't. The only country that has put forward an application is the U.K.
View Ben Lobb Profile
CPC (ON)
View Ben Lobb Profile
2021-06-11 14:07
My last question will be very quick.
View Judy A. Sgro Profile
Lib. (ON)
Make it very, very brief, Mr. Lobb.
View Ben Lobb Profile
CPC (ON)
View Ben Lobb Profile
2021-06-11 14:07
Okay.
It's to my best friend Tom Vilsack, the U.S. agriculture secretary. I'd love to say that the U.S. is our greatest trading partner, and they are, but Secretary Vilsack sure doesn't prove it with his rhetoric about COOL. How do we complete a deal on USMCA? It's a different regime with a different President, but now we're right back into this again. It's very disheartening.
Doug Forsyth
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Doug Forsyth
2021-06-11 14:07
On country of origin labelling, we did win a WTO case on that. We do retain the right to retaliate if the United States were ever to implement something that was offside from the WTO commitments. We could implement that rather quickly, if need be.
View Judy A. Sgro Profile
Lib. (ON)
Thank you, Mr. Forsyth.
Madam Clerk, I understand that you've been able to clarify Mr. Blaikie's motion.
Christine Lafrance
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Christine Lafrance
2021-06-11 14:08
Yes.
Mr. Blaikie's motion is in order, except that because it goes against Standing Order 75 on the consideration of a bill in committee, whereby we have to do clause-by-clause study and then the title and everything, we would need unanimous consent to pursue this motion.
View Judy A. Sgro Profile
Lib. (ON)
In order to proceed with Mr. Blaikie's motion, we need unanimous consent from the committee.
Christine Lafrance
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Christine Lafrance
2021-06-11 14:08
Exactly.
View Judy A. Sgro Profile
Lib. (ON)
All right.
Does Mr. Blaikie have unanimous consent?
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