Jim Peterson
Jim Peterson
James Scott "Jim" Peterson, PCis a retired Canadian politician and former Minister of International Trade...
achieved challenges continue december hard including kong press remain
Significant challenges remain ... including what can be achieved in Hong Kong in December so we need to continue to press as hard as we can,
case continue court enforce legal public rights
We will continue to enforce our legal rights under the WTO, NAFTA and before the U.S. courts, and we will continue government-to-government advocacy, but we will also take our case to the court of public opinion,
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It's unlawful, it's wrong and it must be repealed. Only some special interest groups south of the border stand to benefit from (it), while American consumers continue to pay more for Canadian products than they could be.
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There are no experts out there willing to testify that because these guys are testing negative now that they will continue to test negative. The jury is still out and will be out for a long time as to whether these people are disease free. It might be five, 10, 15 years down the road before we know whether they'll continue to test negative.
interested primarily
We were primarily interested in getting something pretty.
anybody heard talked
I've talked to some old-timers. Nobody's ever heard of anybody doing that before.
training utah
The story of the training in Utah is just not well-known.
country political
Very often (data disparities start) on political boundaries, where one country had better surveying than the other,
agreement america beyond goes improve north works
This new flexibility which goes well beyond the 1995 agreement will improve how the NAFTA works and it will make North America more competitive.
emerging markets neglected relationships trade
We have sorely neglected our trade relationships over the years with the new and emerging markets - the Chinas and Indias,
eye opportunity plain prime treaty
We must keep our eye on the ball; the NAFTA must be respected. Here is a prime opportunity for the U.S. to recommit to the treaty it signed, plain and simple.
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Manager turnover is not necessarily bad. Maybe a manager is leaving and there's a perfectly adequate team in place, or the new manager has been groomed.
keeps less overhead people
I'd like to see it keep going, but it's just not there. We're getting less and less people in there and the overhead keeps going up. I don't know what else to do.
factor spring wheat
Obviously, that's another factor that's going to play into spring wheat trends.