Aluminum is a huge concern. Quebec makes most of it for North America. Second only maybe to kegs, which are made of steel, aluminum is the primary way that craft beer gets to market.
The current tariffs have seen our aluminum prices skyrocket at a time when Canadian consumers aren't really willing to pay more for beer. Generally, the increased cost of aluminum that we've been experiencing over the last year has come out of margins or bottom lines of breweries, rather than coming out of the consumers' pocketbooks.
It would be good. There are some things that the federal government could help encourage to create more sheet aluminum in Canada. We actually make a lot of beer cans in Canada. We make a lot of aluminum ingot. It's just that the aluminum ingot has to go to the U.S. and then come back to Canada to be made into cans. There's probably an opportunity there.
As a craft brewer, I can say aluminum cans are a huge strain on our business because they are our path to market.
