Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister Ng, it's a pleasure to see you. Thank you for the extraordinary work that you and your parliamentary secretary have been doing on this file.
I will share some time with Ms. Bendayan.
I wanted to give you the opportunity to clarify for Canadians exactly what we're talking about here. As you said in your opening statement, there's the 1933 Buy American Act; there's the 1983 buy America act, and then there's President Biden's recent executive order. Then, there are all the different places Canada is exempt from “buy American”, whether through the GPA or the USMCA.
Could you talk to the committee and to Canadians about exactly what the biggest concern is about the President's recent executive order that would change things under either “buy American” or “buy America”, and how you are working with your colleagues to handle that?