As I mentioned at the outset, our company buys steel mostly in Canada. We process the product and we resell it in Canada. As Mr. Toupin mentioned a little earlier, we buy in Canada and the distributors are now charging us $1 per pound. That price includes taxes and surtaxes, so it is very difficult for us to recover them, given that we do not have access to that information.
On the other hand, when we bid on contracts where we are in competition with foreign competitors, they base themselves on the world price for steel, which is not $1 per pound at all. It is somewhere between $0.60 and $0.70 per pound at most. So it is very difficult for us to remain competitive in a situation like that.
To help us, the tax refund program would have to be more flexible or we have to be exempt from those taxes. If we process steel in Canada for resale in the country, we automatically lose our competitive edge. So the help has to be by making it easier to recover the taxes, given that the distributors from whom we buy steel do not give us that information.