Mr. Chair, on the question of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, you know how it works. Companies that believe they have suffered damage and think that foreign products have been dumped have to apply to the tribunal. The measures we wanted to include in Bill C-411 were specifically intended to prevent this situation and to allow for a speedy determination of whether dumping was occurring.
At present, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal rules on applications by companies or industries. This has happened several times and it is extremely expensive. The companies have to prepare, and do analyses and studies. They practically have to do the work of various government agencies. Take the example of Raleigh, which makes bicycles. It spent over $300,000; the Canadian International Trade Tribunal found in its favour, but the government did not impose the additional duties that it was entitled to impose.
You will remember that the Minister, Mr. Bernier, said this was not a problem. Those may not be his exact words, but nonetheless jobs were going to be lost because we were going to sell fewer bicycles. Certainly it was not a problem, because we were going to pay less for them. He may be a bicycling enthusiast, but the industry was a victim of dumping.
When we have tools, institutions like the tribunal and the Canada Revenue Agency, which can do analyses and make findings that support the company, why does the government not simply act on those findings?
This is why these measures have to be taken. When the tribunal finds for a company, it would be reasonable to apply those measures and rule in favour of the industry, particularly when the company has paid $200,000 or $300,000 or $400,000 to have studies done.