Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07OTTAWA783
2007-04-30 20:54:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ottawa
Cable title:
SPECIAL 301 CANADA 2007, DEMARCHE DELIVERED
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UNCLAS OTTAWA 000783
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CAN AND EEB/TPP/IPE BOGER AND WALLACE
STATE PLEASE PASS TO USTR FOR MELLE AND SULIVAN
COMMERCE FOR GERI WORD AND SEBASTIAN WRIGHT
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON ETRD KIPR CA
SUBJECT: SPECIAL 301 CANADA 2007, DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: A. STATE 56189
B. OTTAWA 765
UNCLAS OTTAWA 000783
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CAN AND EEB/TPP/IPE BOGER AND WALLACE
STATE PLEASE PASS TO USTR FOR MELLE AND SULIVAN
COMMERCE FOR GERI WORD AND SEBASTIAN WRIGHT
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON ETRD KIPR CA
SUBJECT: SPECIAL 301 CANADA 2007, DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: A. STATE 56189
B. OTTAWA 765
1. (SBU) EconMinCouns delivered points in ref A to Paul
Robertson, Director General, North America Trade Policy
Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade. DG Robertson said that the GOC understands U.S.
concerns very well. Declining to answer questions about when
and how Canada intends to improve IPR protection, Robertson
referred to Prime Minister Harper's April 23 letter to
Ambassador Wilkins (Ref B) saying that he (Robertson) "can
not be more specific than the Prime Minister." Doug George,
Director of the Intellectual Property, Information and
Technology Trade Division was equally vague. He said that,
as he explained in his testemony to Parliment on April 25,
the interagency working group on border enforcement, which he
chairs, has been working hard for over two years but has no
definite target date for releasing their recommendations.
2. (SBU) DG Robertson noted that U.S. Trade Representative
Schwab will be in Ottawa on May 9 and 10 and said that the
GOC expects IPR to be one of the major issues of this visit.
He said that all of the Ministers that she meets with will be
fully briefed on IPR. Robertson also stated that Minister of
Industry Bernier, who has previously offered estimates of
when Canada's new copyright bill would be inroduced in
Parliment, might be in a position to provide an updated
estimate. (Comment: Bernier has made several previous
estimates to the Ambassador and other high ranking USG
officials. All of the target dates, the earliest of which
was last fall, have passed and the bill has not yet been
introduced. End Comment.)
3. (SBU) Meeting Participants
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade:
Paul Robertson - Director General, North America Trade Policy
Bureau
Douglas George - Director, Intellectual Property, Information
and Technology Trade Division
Sean Clark - Senior Trade Policy Officer, Intellectual
Property, Information and Technology Trade Division
U.S. Embassy:
Brian Mohler - Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs
John Carwile - Counselor for Economic Affairs
Ryan Stoner - Second Secretary for Economic Affairs
Visit Canada's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/ottawa
WILKINS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR WHA/CAN AND EEB/TPP/IPE BOGER AND WALLACE
STATE PLEASE PASS TO USTR FOR MELLE AND SULIVAN
COMMERCE FOR GERI WORD AND SEBASTIAN WRIGHT
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON ETRD KIPR CA
SUBJECT: SPECIAL 301 CANADA 2007, DEMARCHE DELIVERED
REF: A. STATE 56189
B. OTTAWA 765
1. (SBU) EconMinCouns delivered points in ref A to Paul
Robertson, Director General, North America Trade Policy
Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade. DG Robertson said that the GOC understands U.S.
concerns very well. Declining to answer questions about when
and how Canada intends to improve IPR protection, Robertson
referred to Prime Minister Harper's April 23 letter to
Ambassador Wilkins (Ref B) saying that he (Robertson) "can
not be more specific than the Prime Minister." Doug George,
Director of the Intellectual Property, Information and
Technology Trade Division was equally vague. He said that,
as he explained in his testemony to Parliment on April 25,
the interagency working group on border enforcement, which he
chairs, has been working hard for over two years but has no
definite target date for releasing their recommendations.
2. (SBU) DG Robertson noted that U.S. Trade Representative
Schwab will be in Ottawa on May 9 and 10 and said that the
GOC expects IPR to be one of the major issues of this visit.
He said that all of the Ministers that she meets with will be
fully briefed on IPR. Robertson also stated that Minister of
Industry Bernier, who has previously offered estimates of
when Canada's new copyright bill would be inroduced in
Parliment, might be in a position to provide an updated
estimate. (Comment: Bernier has made several previous
estimates to the Ambassador and other high ranking USG
officials. All of the target dates, the earliest of which
was last fall, have passed and the bill has not yet been
introduced. End Comment.)
3. (SBU) Meeting Participants
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade:
Paul Robertson - Director General, North America Trade Policy
Bureau
Douglas George - Director, Intellectual Property, Information
and Technology Trade Division
Sean Clark - Senior Trade Policy Officer, Intellectual
Property, Information and Technology Trade Division
U.S. Embassy:
Brian Mohler - Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs
John Carwile - Counselor for Economic Affairs
Ryan Stoner - Second Secretary for Economic Affairs
Visit Canada's Classified Web Site at
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/ottawa
WILKINS