Thank you to the witnesses. It's great to have many of you back again. I always like reminding myself that I'm the son of a United Steelworkers employee and my brother's a Unifor employee. I've got B.C. trade schools, colleges and training institutes in my riding. I have a great affiliation with all of you. I'm thankful for having you on.
I think you shouldn't use the analogy of the elephant and the mouse because you're pretty mighty and that elephant gets scared of you when you put your heads together. I'm very happy to hear that you're getting a lot of co-operation from the Canadian embassy and the government in helping that. This is the time we need you as well, to use your brothers and sisters down south, to help address some of these punitive ideas that are going around.
Mr. Dias, in 2009, in the 2009 recovery act, we saw the U.S. administration implement stringent buy American provisions. What was labour's reaction then in Canada and the U.S.? How can we use that, maybe, to deal with this current situation?