Thank you.
Thank you very much to our witnesses, and thank you, Mr. Dimitrieff.
We talked about having this meeting last week, and within a day, we had over 60 companies reach out to our office saying they'd like to appear.
To say that we're not in a crisis situation would be the greatest understatement of the year. We just had two very specific examples from companies here today. I have a list here. Franke Kindred is a manufacturer that is worried about more expensive stainless steel that is not available in Canada—and, to your point, Mr. Dimitrieff, that will threaten the jobs of 100 Canadians in Midland who work there. There are manufacturers such as Red Deer Iron Works, which employs 225 Canadians to make custom products for the oil industry; Walters Group, in Hamilton, whose structural steel products can be found in the West Block of Parliament; IMT Defence, operating in Ingersoll and Port Colborne; and Ram Industries, and the list goes on and on. These are just a few examples.
The challenge, as you mentioned, Mr. Dimitrieff, is that the specialty steel you need being tariffed on the way in is going to cause irreparable damage. Talk to us about the thought process of trying to find new customers and new markets and how really, four weeks, three weeks, or two weeks is not enough time to transition and how the lead time in your industry to locate and have customers takes years. Once those customers are gone, you're never getting them back, because they're going to find another place. Talk to us about that challenge.