Mr. Bill McMackin: The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has said we should rewrite the whole Income Tax Act and revise the whole structure.

The act is amended as follows: the export control list is amended in a manner to require export permits on the products covered by the scope of the agreement; authority is provided for the Minister of International Trade to establish a quantity that may be exported from an option B region in a month, to establish the basis for calculating export quantities, to establish by order a method for allocating export quantities, to issue export allocations and consent to transfers of allocations, to establish that an EIPA permit may have a retroactive effect, to require applicants to keep records and authorize inspections, to authorize the Gove ...[+++]rnor in Council to make regulations respecting softwood saw log origin and respecting export allocations, and finally, to amend offence provisions to capture offences related to export allocations.

Examples of actions that are, in the view of many of the Committee’s witnesses, unjustified include the continued use of U.S. trade remedies (e.g., American trade action on softwood lumber, the Canadian Wheat Board and a range of other agricultural commodities, most recently blueberries); the imposition by the U.S. of non-tariff barriers to our products; the adoption of the U.S. Farm Bill and the deleterious effects it has on our farmers; and the American position on state trading enterprises and supply management at the World Trade Organization (WTO).