Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'll turn to you now, Mr. Arcand. I'm going to ask you some questions along the same lines as the ones I asked Mr. Mueller.
Obviously, no one was hoping for U.S. tariffs. The government responded with countermeasures; Canadians and Quebeckers were largely in agreement on that. Obviously, no one wanted it. It creates additional red tape, particularly because of tariffs, but also because of the mechanisms through which certain businesses can get tariff refunds. I gave the example of businesses that have no choice but to source from the United States. That's the case for a certain grade of steel and for many minerals, for example. Sometimes, there's no another option. There aren't any Canadian businesses to turn to. The solution is either to pay the retaliatory tariffs or to halt production. For that reason, there's a refund mechanism.
This isn't a criticism of the government. It's impossible to think of everything, and the government had to act quickly. However, businesses tell us that it can sometimes be quite cumbersome and quite complicated. It can be an extra burden on top of the tariffs and countermeasures.
Do you have any proposals that could make this mechanism easier, more systematic or more automatic when a business, manufacturer or exporter can demonstrate that it really has no option but to source certain inputs from the United States?