That's true. First, maybe I should just say that we view this as a North American industry. Obviously we recognize that there's a border there, but for trade, it needs to be an artificial border. We've done a lot of work with government to make sure that we do pre-screening, especially in rail. I think a lot of work has been done and I think there's a lot of work that needs to be done.
I'm not sure everybody knows this, but “buy America”--and what they were talking about in trying to squelch it--has been there for ages. This is nothing new. What they were trying to do is take “buy America” and move it to certain other aspects, but as far as our industry and our sector are concerned, we've been affected by this quite substantially for decades now.
We've actually seen our members set up shop in the U.S. I'll use Bombardier as an example. They're in Plattsburgh so they can access some of the projects in the U.S. that are being federally funded at the state and municipal levels. This has created an actual manufacturing cluster in that area, in a very positive way.
We're saying that there needs to be.... That's why I give it a two-year moratorium and then it should be gone. We need to help Canadian railway suppliers and other manufacturers and this is one way to do it. I'm not suggesting that we emulate “buy America”. I think if we had our way we'd get rid of “buy America”, but we know that probably is not going to happen, to be honest.
We're saying that we'd like to see some ways in which government can support us and get our production capacity up to levels where we can bring back jobs for the people we've had to lay off or make part time. Also, talking about exports, of our exporters, 90% export to the U.S., so it really does paint the picture that we're a North American industry.