First, we would like to applaud the federal government on a good negotiation of the USMCA. That is good. There are provisions in there that will guarantee some growth and some prosperity in Canada, although we have to go on record as saying that without the removal of steel and aluminum tariffs, the agreement really isn't worth anything to us until it goes into place.
That being said, we are feeling the full brunt of the burden of the steel and aluminum tariffs, and the BDC and the EDC agreements that you have in place are really not working. They will not have the positive impact that you're looking for because they don't make financial or business sense.
We feel that taking funding from BDC is nothing more than financing the federal government. What we feel is that there's still a cost there. There is no guarantee of the removal of the tariffs. Therefore, we can't factor them out of our costs, so we're going to continue to leave them in. If those costs are left in, the equation will continue to make Canadian suppliers uncompetitive. In a very competitive market already, we will have no choice but to find and seek out other competitive measures, and right now, we're not finding those in Canada.
It will be a short time before Canadian suppliers will start to look for alternatives, and we already are. Giving us the opportunity to take loans is not a good business model, short term or long term, and we don't need it. If we want to take loans, we'll go get loans from our own banks. We don't need the government's support to support you.