Thank you all for being here today. It's a sobering conversation we've been having this morning, but the consistent message today has been that we know that the U.S. doesn't care about implementing these tariffs. It's become crystal clear that we can't predict what Trump is going to do. I'm extremely worried about what he'll retaliate with after the July 1 date, particularly given what you're saying will immediately happen to some of your businesses, to the folks who are here today.
We need to move now to protect jobs. I don't think I'm the only one sitting in this room with a pit in my stomach right now that's telling me we have to do something immediately. Quebec came out with a package of $100 million for workers. We've yet to see anything come out from the federal government. I don't know what it's waiting for. We need something immediately to offset all of the things you've brought forward.
I know that Unifor represents 8,000 people in aluminum and steel. For the auto sector more broadly the numbers that came out last week were that we would lose one in five jobs if these auto tariffs come on. That would devastate us beyond anything we've ever seen in southwestern Ontario and in a lot of portions of the country. I want to ask Unifor specifically about some proposals for how we can allocate the tariffs we're going to be receiving.
Do you have an idea of how we should use that money to provide those supports for workers?