It's a pleasure to get to speak about this program. It's an important one for Canadian companies. As the member noted, steel is a very significant user of this program.
This program operates under the policy guidance and direction of the Department of Finance under the Special Import Measures Act. As of 2022-23, the duties that we have put in place as a result of our investigations help now to protect 30,000 Canadian jobs and over $11 billion in domestic production.
As was noted, the program has been under significant demand. We currently have 150 measures in force. That represents a 130% increase over the last 10 years, from 2013 to 2023. Steel investigations, not surprisingly, continue to be in high demand. They are our biggest user of the program. From 2020 to 2024 alone, over half of the 41 investigations we initiated dealt with steel products.
We are seeing demand from new, less traditional users as well. Examples are in renewable energy, such as solar panels and wind tower investigations, as well as in consumer goods, construction products and otherwise.
The member asked specifically, Madam Chair, what our officers do. I can tell you that there are three broad categories of what we do. The largest part of the organization, upwards of 50 people, focuses on the investigation work, on going out and understanding what's happening in the market. Are goods being dumped into the Canadian market? This simply means they are being sold at artificially depressed prices, lower than the cost for that company to actually produce that good and make a small profit in their own market. They're selling into Canada at a price lower than what they can sell it for in their own market, adjusted for profit and administrative costs.
For steel, obviously, I would defer to the finance department in terms of their comments on the global market, but steel continues to be a significant priority for us. We are in regular contact on a number of investigations with steel producers and the CSPA.