This Directive should contribute to the effective management of migration flows for the specific category of seasonal temporary migration and to ensuring decent working and living conditions for seasonal workers, by setting out fair and transparent rules for admission and stay and by defining the rights of seasonal workers while at the same time providing for incentives and safeguards to prevent overstaying or temporary stay from becoming permanent.

That should not, however, affect the right of survivors who derive rights from the seasonal worker to receive survivor’s pensions when residing in a third country.

A Simpler GSP: the current five GSP arrangements are reduced to three: a general arrangement (reduction of 3.5% over the normal customs duty for sensitive products, reduction of duties to zero for non-sensitive products), “Everything but Arms”, giving duty-free and quota free access for all products for the world’s 50 poorest countries; a new “GSP+” giving tariff preferences to vulnerable countries who meet the new objective criteria for sustainable development and good governance (reduction to zero duty for a total of 7200 products) ;

For the approximately 40 per cent of annual Canadian agri-food exports to Costa Rica that are subject to import duties, tariffs range from 5 per cent to 159 per cent. This agreement secures improvements in market access for over 90 per cent of Canada's dutiable agri-food exports to Costa Rica and provides overall for immediate elimination of tariffs on 194 of Costa Rica's 653 dutiable agri-food product categories, elimination of tariffs over seven years on 75 categories, elimination of tariffs over 14 years on 294 categories, exclusion with improved trade-related quota access for 20 categories and complete exclusion of 68 categories.

Your Committee also examined 17 bills including C-10, An Act on Fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income; C-11, An Act respecting the imposition of duties of customs and other charges, to give effect to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, to provide relief against the imposition of certain duties of customs or other charges, to provide for other related matters and to amend or repeal certain Acts in consequence thereof; C-20, An Act to amend the Competition Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts; C-21, An Act to amend the Small Business Loans Acts; C-28, An Act ...[+++] to amend the Income Tax Act, the Income Tax Application Rules, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Canada Pension Plan, the Children's Special Allowances Act, the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, the Customs Act, the Customs Tariff, the Employment Insurance Act, the Excise Tax Act, the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, the Income Tax Conventions Interpretation Act, the Old Age Security Act, the Tax Court of Canada Act, the Tax Rebate Discounting Act, the Unemployment Insurance Act, the Western Grain Transition Payments Act and certain Acts related to the Income Tax Act; C-47, An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act, the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act and the Salaries Act; C-5, An Act respecting cooperatives; C-53, An Act to increase the availability of financing for the establishment, expansion, modernization and improvement of small businesses; C-59, An Act to amend the Insurance Companies Act; C-67, An Act to amend the Bank Act, the Winding-up and Restructuring Act and other Acts relating to financial institutions and to make consequential amendments to other Acts; C-72, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act, to implement measures that are consequential on changes to the Canada-U.S. Tax Convention (1980) and to amend the Income Tax Co ...

Your Committee also examined 17 bills including C-10, An Act on Fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income; C-11, An Act respecting the imposition of duties of customs and other charges, to give effect to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, to provide relief against the imposition of certain duties of customs or other charges, to provide for other related matters and to amend or repeal certain Acts in consequence thereof; C-20, An Act to amend the Competition Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts; C-21, An Act to amend the Small Business Loans Acts; C-28, An Act ...[+++] to amend the Income Tax Act, the Income Tax Application Rules, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Canada Pension Plan, the Children's Special Allowances Act, the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, the Customs Act, the Customs Tariff, the Employment Insurance Act, the Excise Tax Act, the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, the Income Tax Conventions Interpretation Act, the Old Age Security Act, the Tax Court of Canada Act, the Tax Rebate Discounting Act, the Unemployment Insurance Act, the Western Grain Transition Payments Act and certain Acts related to the Income Tax Act; C-47, An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act, the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act and the Salaries Act; C-5, An Act respecting cooperatives; C-53, An Act to increase the availability of financing for the establishment, expansion, modernization and improvement of small businesses; C-59, An Act to amend the Insurance Companies Act; C-67, An Act to amend the Bank Act, the Winding-up and Restructuring Act and other Acts relating to financial institutions and to make consequential amendments to other Acts; C-72, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act, to implement measures that are consequential on changes to the Canada-U.S. Tax Convention (1980) and to amend the Income Tax Co ...