Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Ireland's Trade Relationship with Canada: Discussion

Mr. Jonathan O'Hara:

Canada is absolutely looking at that. The United States, as the Deputy probably well knows, is having some similar border mechanism discussions. Given that two of Canada's biggest trade partners are the EU and the US, there will be some kind of border adjustments. Canada already has carbon taxes. I think it is inevitable that as long as those two big trading partners continue moving their initiatives forward, Canada will do something as well. The current Government in particular is very sensitive to climate change, so I think there is a lot of appetite to do something like that, just as the Deputy described, to ensure everyone is incentivised equally to move towards climate change.