This might be an obvious point to the committee, but I'd also point out that while they may want that, they also want to destroy our auto industry and destroy our steel industry.
As for how impressed they would be by a proposal like that, I just don't know. It sounds to me like we're heading toward some agreement on some basic level of tariff. No matter what it is, it is going to undermine our industrial policy, our industrial sector. These are difficult questions.
I think eagerly co-operating with the United States on this issue, though, is very positive, even outside of the trade negotiations. It might even be better to remove this as a CUSMA issue and to focus on it as something that's good for workers around the world and good for business in Canada.
