Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, presented the following report:

Thursday, November 7, 2024

The Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade has the honour to present its

FIFTEENTH REPORT

Your committee, to which was referred Bill C-282, An Act to amend the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act (supply management), has, in obedience to the order of reference of April 16, 2024, examined the said bill and now reports the same with the following amendment:

1.Clause 1, page 1: Add the following after line 17:

“(2.2) Subsection (2.1) does not apply to a commitment made on behalf of Canada by

(a) international trade treaty or agreement that existed upon the coming into force of that subsection;

(b) renegotiation of an international trade treaty or agreement that existed upon the coming into force of that subsection; or

(c) international trade treaty or agreement that was in the course of being negotiated upon the coming into force of that subsection.”.

Respectfully submitted,

PETER M. BOEHM

Chair

(For text of observations, see today’s Journals of the Senate, p. 3265.)