Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a quick question. Clearly, I think one of the things that has been talked about is that nothing in this process that's political is ever certain. So we've seen that as the comeback.
What will the ground effect be of this legislation if it potentially goes through? Our companies caught in the middle of this do not know or are trying to define, as you mentioned, whether their inventories are made in the U.S. or made in Canada. What does this say to Canadian companies that have already been in a procurement process?
Let's say this thing goes through. Now they can't use the products that would normally have been in their contracts. It's pretty self-serving for the United States, because those companies that are looking to do procurement for contracts are now going to say “Whoa, I'm not going to spend my money in a time of constraint. How can I afford to spend money on going through the process of putting a contract or a procurement proposal forward?”
So what will the ground effect be for Canadian companies, from what you've heard when talking to them?