Jim Peterson
Jim Peterson
James Scott "Jim" Peterson, PCis a retired Canadian politician and former Minister of International Trade...
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We would welcome the decision to repeal the Byrd amendment. But we strongly maintain that the Byrd amendment should be eliminated immediately. The WTO ruling was clear.
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We're going to examine this decision very carefully. My message is very simple: We want the U.S. to live up to and respect the Nafta.
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We stand ready to vigorously defend the NAFTA and we will take all steps open to us to ensure it is respected.
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We're grinding the trees first to try and break down into finer pieces, so we can extract the needles.
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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.
along amendment
We have said all along that the Byrd amendment must be withdrawn,
examining liked thrust
It is only an interim decision. We are examining it very carefully. We were disappointed, of course, we would have liked to have won. But over all, our thrust remains, the U.S. has to live up to the NAFTA.
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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.
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My persistent message is that Canada is the bridge to the world's richest market.
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Panel after panel has found that Canadian softwood lumber is not subsidized, ... The United States claims that it has complied with NAFTA. In fact, the United States will only have complied with NAFTA when it stops collecting the duties and refunds the deposits.
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We have sorely neglected our trade relationships over the years with the new and emerging markets - the Chinas and Indias,
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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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We are not getting our fair share of Chinese trade and we want more of it,
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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.