Regarding this issue, we always start by emphasizing that buy American policies are often designed with the idea that they'll create jobs for Americans. In terms of trade between Canada and the United States, cutting off the supply chain would have the exact opposite effect. That's what we're stressing.
However, clearly our government will soon be investing in our economy as well. It will spend money to buy goods and infrastructure for Canada. This is true at the federal level and it's undoubtedly true at the provincial level as well.
I believe that we must ask our American colleagues a very important question. Will we continue on the path of openness, with our mutually supportive trade relationships, or will we take a different path whereby we cut off these relationships, which are so effective, and invest only in goods created by our own companies?