Thank you very much for the question. I apologize, I can't answer in French due to my limited French abilities.
The purpose of Bill C-44 is to address unfair trade. Steel or other goods that come in are dumped and subsidized and distort the market and injure Canadian industry. From a procurement perspective and what you're referring to as the Buy American provisions in the United States, that is a completely different issue, which Bill C-44 doesn't address. If we discuss that a bit, Canada does have procurement provisions; and if we're going to be spending the billions of dollars that we indicate we are, moving forward into the future here in Canada, then we should be looking at potential Canadian preferences. This is particularly given the nexus now of what we're talking about from a trade standpoint and from an environmental standpoint, which is now becoming more critical for Canada.
To give you an example, Canadian steel used in Canada has one-third of the carbon footprint that steel from offshore does. When we put forward a procurement policy here in Canada, we should be looking at that and saying if both of those are important to us, the environment is important to us, then we should be looking at what products we are actually using in our procurement policies, and from where, to reduce that overall carbon footprint. In a nutshell, if you buy Canadian steel, you get a discount of two-thirds on the carbon footprint, and that is something that is being elevated now after COP21, and everything else in Paris, the impact of carbon on the environment and on Canada's procurement policies. We're very hopeful in working with the government on those sorts of measures that would help the economy and help the environment.