Buy North American makes sense only from a U.S. point of view. If you tell a U.S. supplier that we the government will tell them what their supply chain looks like, and we don't want their own efficiencies or their own relationships to matter, that's problematic. That's not really the way America works, typically, when it works well.
We know that buy North American, or buy Canada-U.S., works in the defence sector. We've had the defence production-sharing agreement since the 1960s. Canadian defence companies can bid on Pentagon projects as if they were American, so we have a good template for it. We also have all of those industries and sectors that get tariff-free access to the United States because of NAFTA.
When we're talking about buy American, what we're really talking about is government procurement really coming out of the stimulus that's about to happen, and you don't want to make that more expensive. A Canadian waiver, like we got in 2009 and like we got last year during the pandemic, on PPE.... There was a Canadian waiver that was not well publicized but that in fact happened in the federal Emergency Management Act regulation. That kind of thing makes eminent sense. It's in the U.S. interest to do so, so I think you have to just keep hammering away at it.