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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Second Session, Forty-first Parliament, 2013-14

Chair: The Honourable A. RAYNELL ANDREYCHUK

Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Issue No. 20

Sixth, seventh and eighth meetings:

Examine the potential for increased Canada-United States-Mexico trade and investment, including in growth areas in key resource, manufacturing and service sectors; the federal actions needed to realize any identified opportunities in these key sectors; and opportunities for deepening cooperation at the trilateral level

Twenty-ninth meeting:

Study on security conditions and economic developments in the Asia-Pacific region, the implications for Canadian policy and interests in the region, and other related matters

WITNESSES

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure (Ontario):

Chantal Ramsay, Counsellor (Commercial — Ontario) and Ontario Government Representative in Mexico (by video conference).

Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada:

François Rivest, Minister Counsellor and Senior Trade Commissioner, Embassy of Canada in Mexico (by video conference).

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Energy Council of Canada:

Graham Campbell, President.

As an individual:

Jean Daudelin, Associate Professor, Associate Director, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.

Thursday, December 11, 2014

As an individual:

Derek Burney, Senior Strategic Advisor, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP / S.E.N.C.R.L., s.r.l.

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada:

Paul Davidson, President.

TD Bank Group:

Derek Burleton, Vice President and Deputy Chief Economist (Canada) (by video conference).

Embassy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar:

H.E. Hau Do Suan, Ambassador.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable A. Raynell Andreychuk, Chair

The Honourable Percy E. Downe, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

Ataullahjan, *Carignan, P.C. (or Martin),*Cowan (or Fraser), Dawson, Demers, Eaton, Fortin-Duplessis, Johnson, Oh,  Smith (Cobourg), P.C., Verner, P.C. 

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)

Changes in membership of the committee:

Pursuant to rule 12-5, membership of the committee was amended as follows:

The Honourable Senator Eaton replaced the Honourable Senator Housakos (December 3, 2014).

The Honourable Senator Robichaud, P.C., was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (December 1, 2014).

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