I agree with Andrew. I think this should be rejected straight out and then we should sit down and develop policy.
You hit on it: we are a marine nation. We have a waterway that's longer than the Atlantic Ocean, and how we manage that waterway is even bigger than shipbuilding. Shipbuilding is only a part of that. Waterway management and the controlling of the Canadian fleets and the transportation that goes on around here is really lax, I think, for a maritime nation. For sure, the right way to approach this is to put in place the policies, before you negotiate a trade deal like this, that allow us to start to flourish and watch our industry grow a bit before we go and pull the plug.
Right now we have a 25% tariff in place and we're not growing, we're not competing. So to say “just adjust” as we remove that tariff is totally lax, and I think anybody who really looks at it has to understand that before you could do this, we have to head in the right direction. And right now we're not. We're not heading in the right direction at all.