Thank you.
I understand that the government was taken by surprise, and maybe you folks were as well, but the reason we're so upset about this is not just because of the passage of the bill in 2009, the impact that had on us, and the fact that it's come back again. This may not go through, I know, but it's the fact that it's there: it will affect the buying intentions, the purchasing intentions of those suppliers and so on, and it will have a ripple effect.
I have a steel fabricator in my riding that's the largest bridge-builder in Atlantic Canada, one of the five in Canada. They used to do a lot of business in New York, you know, on the Triborough Bridge and the John F. Kennedy airport, the major terminal. They've done a number of things there.
Can you talk a little about the actual impact you've seen on Canadian businesses from the original Buy American bill and the potential impact from the introduction of this bill?