The U.S. chamber was very much in front in dealing with the “buy America” issue. We were very pleased with how proactive and forceful they were in encouraging the government to reconsider its position.
We remain concerned. We expect Congress, which by its nature has a history of being more protectionist.... We expect to see a number of other such issues pop up as we move forward over the next year or two. We'll have to be absolutely vigilant in trying to deal with them.
On the specific “buy America” that was in the stimulus package, unfortunately we're in a bit of a difficult situation with it. The way it's worded now, any federal spending on infrastructure will be exempted because of NAFTA, but because Canada and our Canadian provinces have not opted into the WTO procurement agreement, other countries who have, such as Europe and Chile, will have greater access to state-level infrastructure spending than Canadian companies may.
This is one of those things wherein perhaps we've done it to ourselves, but it's definitely something we might want to reconsider our position on.