Thank you.
Thanks to our witnesses. As someone who also has a small amount of Swiss-German heritage, I'd particularly like to welcome Mr. Wildhaber.
I want to ask the panel about environmental policy and procurement. It emits about five times as much carbon to produce a tonne of steel in China and ship it here than it does to produce it at the steel mill in Regina. Similarly, more carbon is emitted in producing cement in China and transporting it here than in producing it in Canada.
I'm wondering if federal procurement policy can take account of the differing carbon content of goods as a legitimate environmental policy that is exempt from trade agreements, or would that be considered some sort of discriminatory local preference?
Perhaps I'll start with the tribunal.