International Trade committee  I'll say, for us, absolutely.

International Trade committee  It's what we're using on our point-of-sale material.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  Yes, I certainly do. One thing we've found as a result of some of this trade tension, which really has happened globally now, is that Canadian products still in a lot of ways hold a stronger value than those of our counterparts in the U.S. To be completely honest, the “made in North America” logo sold very nicely for us in Europe, while today we're getting asked by customers if we have to have that logo or if we could just have “made in Canada”.

International Trade committee  No. To be blunt, our biggest issue is trying to get the steel costs normalized, to be honest. When we're dealing with our inputs, that's what our business is focused on. We're 18% up and 22% on the spot market right now and it's killing us. We have to get that issue specifically handled.

International Trade committee  We're looking at a couple of different things. First, to back up a little bit so that you understand, our facilities are in Tennessee and Indiana. We make die-cast aluminum ovens. We have seven die-cast cells in Tennessee. Those components would flow to our Canadian facility and also to our U.S. facilities.

International Trade committee  That's great.

International Trade committee  That's good.

International Trade committee  We have 475 in the Waterloo region.

International Trade committee  Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the Standing Committee on International Trade. My name is Colin Kirvan. I am the vice-president of product management at Onward Manufacturing Company. I'm joined today by our president, Terry Witzel. Onward is a third-generation, Canadian-owned company in the Waterloo region since 1906.