Thank you, Chair.
Although this study is more about buy America, buy American and those trade policies, I want to thank my colleague Mr. Lewis who has highlighted the vaccination issues. I hope somebody from Premier Ford's cabinet is listening to this to make sure there is vaccination at the border crossings. While others are and his aren't, I think that's a problem that the Premier of Ontario and the health authority of Ontario need to take very seriously. We should maybe point that to the health committee to facilitate that.
In this, I want to thank, first of all, Mr. Wilson, Ms. Cobden and Mr. McSweeney for their testimony. It's very important.
You have emphasized what we all see every day: goods going back and forth. I have AI industries in my riding that fabricate steel, and I remember when the tariffs were put on, we had interesting dilemmas happening where their steel was being tariffed by the U.S., who were saying that it's unsafe, and on the same side we were countervailing and hitting steel where certain parts were coming from the U.S.
With the schools being built in Seattle, some of the steel is coming from the U.S., some is coming from Quebec, and some is fabricated here in British Columbia and then assembled down in Seattle. Therefore, you can see the intricacies of the steel going back and forth, and parts going back and forth. That has really shown it.
Mr. McSweeney, you've talked about it in terms of concrete. Every day we see Lafarge and others shipping cement, going back and forth. Some products made on the other side of the border come over this way. I think it's almost impossible to separate that type of ingredient in it.
What I would like to know, and anyone can feel free to elaborate on this, is if they were to effectively stop Canadian products from being able to be bought in procurement under the U.S. federal plan, what is the dollar value that would be at risk that falls below the 50% American input threshold? What would we be at risk of losing? Does anyone have an idea?
Mr. Wilson, perhaps you might elaborate, as you're kind of the collective on it. I've been trying to get this from many industries and haven't got that number.