Finance committee  Thank you, Chair. It's very important to understand that connection. I tried to explain earlier. I know you're talking about Tenaris in your own riding, but again, the products they are supplying through there originate with steel made somewhere else. We think this supply chain

Finance committee  I'll speak to both direct and indirect ways in which this plays out. First of all, while you did not see brand new steel plants go up in Canada since then, there has actually been a lot of investment in the operations that we have. Frankly, you haven't seen much in the way of bra

Finance committee  I'll just quickly start. They are challenges for us too. I bet that some of the mills you saw in China were their newer ones and not some of the older ones that are still operating.

Finance committee  We have a range of environmental requirements we have to meet, a lot of them at the provincial level. We do that. We invest in the technologies and new capital investments to do that. In the long term as an industry, our industry is working globally to find new technologies to

Finance committee  Again, it depends on whether you have environmental regulations and also whether you enforce.

Finance committee  I think this was discussed a bit in the previous panel as well, that having competitive tax rates and regimes in Canada versus our competitors is very important. I think it has benefited not simply our own industry, but we always look at the impact of tax measures on our customer

Finance committee  I think it has contributed to the growth in manufacturing, but we also look at some of the very specific measures like the accelerated capital cost allowance that Mr. Myers commented on earlier and the impact that's had on capital investment by manufacturing. In a sense it's not

Finance committee  Time is tight, but to answer the question very quickly, as I mentioned earlier, infrastructure or construction broadly is a significant end-use demand for steel products, and investments in physical infrastructure certainly pull steel demand, frankly, so that is very much an area

Finance committee  As you know, it's an issue before the tribunal even as we speak. There was a recent determination by the CITT to establish anti-dumping duties in relation to three other countries. Our industry is prepared to compete in that market on a fair market basis, on the basis of market e

Finance committee  From the point of view of the affordability for government, that's a different question, but on the point of the value and importance of infrastructure investment to our industry, it's a very important segment for producers of products like rebar, and structural steel, and so on.

Finance committee  One of our members is there, actually. It's a very good question, and I'd add just a couple of points to what I think every industry has done. They have had to become more productive and more efficient in their operations. Certainly it has been a challenge for us. We're a heavil

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, committee members and fellow witnesses. I appreciate this opportunity to appear before you today. My name is Ron Watkins. I'm the president of the Canadian Steel Producers Association, an industry with annual shipments in the range of $12

Natural Resources committee  Yes, right.

Natural Resources committee  I think the points made by Ms. Kennedy are, from my point of view, spot on. The planned development of the resources, the infrastructure, and so on is obviously good from a steel consumption point of view, but in a sense the predictability of it also becomes important as people t

Natural Resources committee  I'll go very quickly, then, to the question. Yes, it's absolutely important that our firms, particularly those making the highly engineered, highly advanced seamless pipe and tube products, for example, that you would use in an in situ development, engineering the couplings, as