Jacob Mantle

Minister of National Defence Mr. Speaker, I am rising to follow up on a question I asked theabout the now infamous Maritime Launch Services' so-called spaceport in Nova Scotia. Clearly this is a project where federal money is being spent, and has been spent, without proper due diligence. It is, of course, also being spent very quickly. Just to recap, it was $200 million over 10 years for a piece [more]

Mr. Speaker, I am not really debating the member on the potential benefits of having a space industry. That is not really the question. The question goes to the heart of what he suggests is the potential opportunity, because that opportunity, or at least a large portion of that opportunity, will not exist unless we complete this technology safeguards agreement. I would invite him to ask Magellan [more]

Mr. Speaker, for all the talk and all the announcements, by the minister's own admission there are only 19,000 homes, but only 2,000 are actually under construction. That is all talk and no action. This week, the Liberals announced a new housing project, and I thought maybe we are going to get some progress. The announcement was $7.8 million for affordable housing, but, oops, it is [more]

Prime Minister Mr. Speaker, when thepromised what he called the most ambitious housing plan since the Second World War, Canadians can be forgiven for assuming that meant more homes, not fewer, but the Liberals' own housing agency, the CMHC, says that housing starts are down this year and that Canada is on track to build fewer homes this year than last year. It says the key risk is that we will [more]

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding this, but as far as I know, Canada does not grow coffee beans. Other than a few places in the United States, the United States really doesn't commercially grow coffee beans either.

Okay. I think we understood your answer. I have another question on the U.S. dispute. One thing I've discovered about coffee is that it falls outside the CUSMA, or the USMCA, in the sense that roasted coffee does not result in originating status for that good. When Canada has exemptions for U.S. actions for CUSMA-compliant goods, which it has received over the last several tariff actions by the [more]

Yes. Thank you for that. I mean, the government said they would try to target products that Canada made itself or that it could get other places. Do you know what happened to the money that was collected from your members, who paid those surtaxes? Did the government keep that money, or have they given it back to you?

Okay. We've often heard that Canada has the best deal in the world with the United States, but as I think your industry points out to the committee, there are some industries in which that's not the case, because they cannot benefit from the agreement.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to our witnesses for appearing and for providing their testimony. Mr. Carter, I have a few questions for you first. I understand that roasted coffee was subject to retaliatory surtaxes until September of last year. On roasted coffee in the United States that was imported into Canada, Canadian importers and consumers paid retaliatory surtaxes. Is that correct?

Thanks.

Thank you.

Why did the Government of Canada put surtaxes on roasted coffee?

To the extent that the government has kept that money from your importers for products that we don't make in Canada, do you think the government should return that money now that they've cancelled those surtaxes?

As a general proposition, do you or do you not want that money back?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to our witnesses for appearing and providing their valuable testimony this morning. I wanted to ask about Olymel's operations in Canada and if they had any views on what the business conditions are like for them operating in Canada. How do they find regulatory burden, labour costs, input costs, logistics costs? Can you tell us about your experience operating [more]

Okay. Mr. Fahey, what's your view on the data localization in chapter 19?

Thank you. Mr. Morin, was Olymel affected by the labour disruptions at the port of Vancouver in the last several years?

I know there was some reporting about this, but I wonder if I could ask you this directly. Could you quantify for us, in dollar cost, the impact on Olymel as a result of the inability of the government to get labour peace at the port of Montreal?