Yes. I'll try to be really quick.
I'm really listening to Mr. Dimitrieff, and we've listened to other witnesses today about these tariffs. Counter-tariffs will be very harmful for some people. I understand the importance of retaliation, but I want to bring up the point that maybe there's another thing we should be looking at.
If we get into the Americans' viewpoint, which I'm trying to understand, their issue seems to be the dumping of Chinese steel long term. We found out last week, when Minister Freeland was here, that they knew about this tariff action last year. They had a meeting at the highest levels in Italy with the Prime Minister and Mr. Trump. So they were aware of it. There was nothing in the budget. There didn't seem to be a plan. I was kind of criticized because I was asking the minister about what the plan was for auto; we can't just sit on our butts here, we have to get moving.
Mr. Dimitrieff, with Mr. Ross saying that if they took this action sooner it would have prevented the crisis, do you maybe think there's another thing we should be doing right now? Should we maybe be looking at, with the Americans...? Apparently, they're looking for global partners to make this tariff action work. Should we open up that page again and say, “Look, maybe if we work with you on this action in the big picture, all these issues we're dealing with right now will go away, or it will help us move closer to a NAFTA solution”?
You seem to be in the gravest situation of any of the witnesses we've had here.