{"time": "2013-11-07 17:15:00", "attribution": {"en": "Mr. Leon Benoit (Vegreville\u2014Wainwright, CPC)", "fr": "M. Leon Benoit (Vegreville\u2014Wainwright, PCC)"}, "content": {"en": "

Thank you very much. I wasn't expecting to have an opportunity here.

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First of all, thank you to the witnesses. Thank you very much.

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Dr. Kunin, you mentioned that Canada is the only country on earth that has open access to Europe and the American markets, and there's an advantage in that.

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I was recently in Europe at a meeting of the economics committee of the NATO parliamentarians. The trade expert there from Europe said that there's only about a 10% probability of the European Union and the United States signing a substantial agreement within the next 10 years, and a 15% probability of Europe and the United States signing any trade agreement in the next 10 years.

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If that is the case, could there be an added advantage to Canada, and to Canadian agriculture in particular, with American companies and American business people coming to Canada to get access to that European market?

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I'd also like the other witnesses to answer that later, if they could.

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Merci beaucoup. Je ne croyais plus avoir la possibilit\u00e9 d'intervenir.

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D'abord et avant tout, un grand merci \u00e0 tous nos t\u00e9moins.

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Madame Kunin, vous avez indiqu\u00e9 que le Canada est le seul pays au monde \u00e0 avoir acc\u00e8s librement aux march\u00e9s europ\u00e9ens et am\u00e9ricains, ce qui est un avantage pour nous.

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J'ai particip\u00e9 r\u00e9cemment en Europe \u00e0 une r\u00e9union du comit\u00e9 sur l'\u00e9conomie des parlementaires de l'OTAN. Les experts commerciaux europ\u00e9ens nous ont dit qu'il n'y avait qu'environ 10 % de chances que l'Union europ\u00e9enne et les \u00c9tats-Unis concluent une entente globale au cours des 10 prochaines ann\u00e9es, et 15 % de chances qu'ils signent quelque entente commerciale que ce soit au cours de la m\u00eame p\u00e9riode.

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Si tel est effectivement le cas, pourrait-il y avoir un avantage suppl\u00e9mentaire pour le Canada, et pour notre agriculture tout particuli\u00e8rement, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 que les entreprises et les hommes d'affaires des \u00c9tats-Unis devront passer par notre pays pour avoir acc\u00e8s au march\u00e9 europ\u00e9en?

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J'aimerais que nos autres t\u00e9moins r\u00e9pondent \u00e9galement \u00e0 cette question, si possible.

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