Good afternoon all. Thank you for being here today.
CUSMA is very important to a big riding like mine, which is home not just to farmers, but also to steel and aluminum workers.
I'm a welder by trade. I spent more than 26 years in the steel industry. My brother is a top employer in the steel sector in my region. All that to say how important and historic this agreement is to my family and to the government.
Mr. Neumann, you've often mentioned the steel and aluminum sectors in the same sentence. If we set aside the aluminum industry for a moment, can we agree today on the fact that people in the steel industry are quite pleased with CUSMA?