It would affect us in the negative sense, in that we don't see anything in this deal that would resolve these issues. I know Brother Jerry Dias from Unifor and the representative from Ford Canada had come to speak about the impact that currency manipulation by Japan is having on the auto parts sector. Japan's currency manipulation is helping that country support its own export markets.
For us, we've had issues recently with Chinese dumping of rebar into the Canadian marketplace, and we were able to push that back through a trade tribunal case that was pursued about six months ago. The problem is that those trade cases have to be pursued by the companies, so the companies, representing a large swath of the industry, have to take the initiative to push these forward. Unlike in the U.S., unions and workers do not have similar rights to approach the Canadian government and say they want it to pursue this trade tribunal to protect an industry here in the country.
That's something we'd like to see. That certainly hasn't been referenced in the TPP, and we know that the NDP has pushed that forward in the past, but we haven't been able to get it through the House. We'd like to see that as a domestic policy that would accompany any trade deal, setting aside our broad issues with the TPP.