Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I was very pleased to be asked to join this committee. I am not a usual member of this committee, but I jumped at the opportunity.
As the member of Parliament for Cambridge, I'm very proud of the work that's done at Gerdau and the many different steel and manufacturing businesses in my community that have had a real struggle over the last 11 months or so in dealing with the uncertainty.
Through you, Mr. Chair, I want to thank all of the companies affected by this for their patience and for standing with us. I talked to many different folks in the industry who felt it was their patriotic duty to stand with us and be vigilant, because it became not about steel and aluminum but really about sovereignty and allowing Canada to make the decisions for itself on how we govern our own industries.
One of the problems with going last is that a lot of the questions have already been asked. Pierre, I thought I had a good one, and you just stole it from me.
I will ask a technical question, however. It's just my ignorance in the process. I guess I was surprised, Mr. Neumann, when you were talking about how it requires the industry to file a complaint in order to get these things moving. I would like to hope that we can get to a point—as Ms. Cobden mentioned—of modernizing the process so that these things can be caught prior to requiring industry or unions to be making these complaints moving forward.
When that happens, how quickly does the process work? Is it a fairly large range, or is it fairly quick in terms of how these things get done if there's an obvious case or a spike in dumping? How quickly can we respond to these things, prior to, of course, the legislation and tool we're going to have—hopefully—in front of us soon?