Thank you.
I just want to say that obviously we see big concerns in fabricated metal. That's the focus of today, but we also, in your community, see a significant impact for the primary metal industry. Actually, they are connected, because these small companies want to buy Canadian steel. When their capacity is depressed, it's the customer base of Dofasco or Algoma that is impacted.
That's also why Greg Dunnett, the president and CEO of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, provided a quote in support of the statement we made today. I'll just reiterate that we obviously cannot accept a situation where concessions are being asked of us for us to keep our businesses, basically, to keep our economic prosperity and to keep the jobs of the people who build this country. The terms of a trade agreement are usually negotiated on a win-win basis, and there are also interrelations in the supply chain. That sort of logic—you win, you lose or vice versa—honestly doesn't apply to the way our economy is built.
This is why, when we went to Washington, every business, actually without exception, told us that they did not support tariffs and wanted a resolution. You could think of steel, you could think of autos and you could even think of aluminum. You have communities in Kingston that are really dependent on aluminum that crosses the border three or four times. Again, everything is interrelated.
That's not a logic that we support: We think negotiation has to happen on a win-win basis between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States, and U.S. businesses support that.