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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Tuesday, June 27

Notes from Committee: Emerson at International Trade on softwood, free trade with Korea and Team Canada missions

by DavidAkin on Tue 27 Jun 2006 07:11 AM EDT

International Trade Minister David Emerson was the witness at the June 5, 2006 meeting of the Commons Standing Committee on International Trade. Some excerpts:

On Canada’s trade performance …

Canada's trade performance and, indeed, our economic performance has been really quite good, if not stellar, the last few years. You'll ... more »

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