Here's the problem. I think in the last panel someone mentioned $600 billion in procurement markets in the United States. It's a huge number. We only make about that much in manufactured goods in Canada on an annual basis across all industries, so it's a massive number.
I don't want to put an exact dollar number on it. What I will say is that, whatever you think it is, it's going to be bigger. The reason I say that is that economists will come out and study and say, "In this sector, in this sector and in this sector, this will be what the impact is", and they'll give you a nice round number. Maybe it's a $100 billion, maybe it's $50 billion; I don't know. What you can never calculate is the chilling effect on everything else that you never see.
What we end up seeing is that, when the government starts promoting buy American policies mostly as a way to be against dumped stuff coming in from offshore, they almost always say, "Oh, we don't mean Canada", even though it spills over into every procurement decision that any company and the government make on anything. You can set all the benchmarks in the world—50%, $50,000, $2 million—but whatever number you want to throw out there is completely irrelevant, because what ends up happening at the end of the day is that it spills over into every single transaction that takes place in every single sector, both in the public and private sectors.
There are no easy solutions. We've even had member companies of ours who were involved in this actually buy American companies themselves to get around the buy American restrictions and continue to manufacture the goods in the United States to supply U.S. government contracts, only to be told they weren't allowed to bid on American contracts because they weren't an American company.