Traduction de «Approvisionner en produits hôteliers » (Français → Anglais) :

(q) ensuring, in so far as practicable, the maintenance of supplies of the controlled product to independent retailers of that product consistent with any priorities of use established by the Board;

One, I have talked about the competitiveness in terms of supply costs of Canadian product relative to supply costs around the world, and given some figures that indicate Canada enjoys the cheapest energy costs from our refined petroleum product perspective of any place in the world, including the U.S.

I'm talking about strategic procurement, so leveraging procurement or public investment in either infrastructure projects or procurement of products and services to drive innovation and domestic manufacturing capabilities here in Canada.

(2) The particular geographical situation of the French overseas departments (FOD) imposes additional transport costs in supplying essential products, for processing and as agricultural inputs. In addition, objective factors arising as a result of insularity and extreme remoteness impose further constraints on operators and producers in the FOD that severely handicap their activities. This is true particularly in the case of the supply of cereals, which are by and large not produced and cannot be produced on a large scale in the FOD, rendering them dependent on external sources of supply. These handicaps can be alleviated by lowering the ...[+++] price of these essential products. It is therefore appropriate to introduce specific supply arrangements with a view to ensuring supply to the FOD from local production and to mitigating the additional costs of the remoteness, insularity and outermost location of the FOD.

(2) The particular geographical situation of Madeira and the Azores imposes additional transport costs in supplying essential products for human consumption, for processing and as agricultural inputs. In addition, objective factors arising as a result of insularity impose further constraints on economic operators and producers in these islands that severely handicap their activities. These handicaps can be alleviated by lowering the price of these essential products. It is therefore appropriate to introduce specific supply arrangement ...[+++]s to guarantee supply to these islands and compensate for the additional costs arising from their remoteness, insularity and outermost location.

The government is fully justified in taking immediate action on these imports since, first, the history of trade negotiations clearly indicates that such products would be covered by 0404.9; second, the U.S. has already challenged the coverage of these tariff lines and lost at the NAFTA panel; third, government policy is to support supply management and dairy products, which are being undermined by these imports; fourth, imports of these products are strictly designed to circumvent Canada's border measures in an effort to find lower-cost alternatives to domestic supplies of butter fat, even ...[+++] though ice cream products themselves are not competing with imports; fifth, the cost of butter fat in Canada has not increased since prior to the imports of these blends; and last, consumers did not benefit from the imports of lower-cost butter fat as evidenced by the fact that the consumer price index for ice cream has increased by 4.3% since January 1995, even though imports of butter oil/sugar blends have increased by 488% during this period. Domestic butter fat costs did not change.