Things are quite complicated right now. I run a small business with about thirty employees, and I think many companies like mine find themselves in the same situation every time new measures are announced.
Last Monday, I read in La Presse that there would be 25% tariffs on my products. I immediately panicked. We do research, we reach out, and we didn’t really understand. The only way out is to consult customs experts who charge $200 an hour. It’s been like this since last summer. I have to spend about five to 10 hours a week trying to figure out whether I have the right harmonized system codes, making sure my products qualify, and filing my steel and steel content declarations.
Therefore, it’s not easy. I would have liked the government to set up a hotline for contractors, to answer their questions and support them, instead of making them pay people $200 an hour to tell them how to do things and what’s going on.