Until now, we've frequently evoked the COVID‑19 pandemic in support of the proposed regulations.
Am I mistaken or did the United States say at some point that it would stop exporting sanitizing products and keep them for itself? I remember a time when there were empty shelves in the pharmacies.
So it was the SMEs from here that had no expertise in this area and that had to turn on a dime and develop sanitizing products.
In other words, Canadian and American businesses weren't fighting on an equal footing at all. Some multinationals based and operating in the United States since forever still aren't competing on an equal footing with SMEs that have been operating in the sector for two or three years.
Could regulations like those being proposed make the gap even wider?