Thank you for the question. I alluded to it a bit. The fact is, we have lobbied quite extensively the government of the day to try to make some amendments so that we would have the same access as our union. As they know, we're an international union. We participate and work with the steel industry, the aluminum industry, the rubber tire industry, whichever. The fact is, we should have the right to file complaints.
In this last budget, the government came and gave us basically standing, and for that reason, Craig and many of our people were full participants. They had the right to bring evidence and to cross-examine. That's a step in the right direction, but I truly do not think it's going far enough. We truly have to have the ability to file trade dispute complaints on behalf of the communities and our members. That's something we're going to continue to strive towards, and hopefully the government can see fit....
I can also share this with you. I did some testimony here earlier in regard to the 2015 rebar case in British Columbia, where the B.C. government at the time was asking for exemption. I personally testified, along with some of our other people, because the argument there was that they couldn't supply the west coast because that had to do with the Site C dam. Basically the CITT ruled against them, and they also talked about the importance of the union members being part and parcel of that evidence. More recently, we've seen that the chair of the CITT talks about the importance of having workers. So, we're not going to give up on that. We're going to be very persistent.
The fact is, it's an industry that we care about. It's an industry that we want to make sure is going to be vibrant, because there's no successful economy around the world if you don't have an efficient steel industry. We want to become part of that and make sure that we don't lose that sight.