Thank you very much.
We are all very aware. Steel, aluminum, auto and softwood are the ones we hear about over and over in the House because it's true that those sectoral tariffs are very damaging to our economy.
On defence procurement, where we can.... I'll use both steel and aluminum as examples. Steel is a good example. We're building armoured vehicles here. We're building ships here. We need a very specific type of steel for that, and we're trying to get some of our big steel producers to pivot. It's the same with aircraft aluminum. We have De Havilland. We have Bombardier. We have some big aircraft manufacturers here. We're trying to see whether there's an opportunity for them to source some of their material from Canada. Again, the aluminum they need may not be exactly what's being produced.
The bigger opportunity is the buy Canada strategy, which is all the building that we're going to do across the country—and it's significant. The Government of Canada will be buying Canadian materials: steel, aluminum and lumber. That's probably the quickest relief you'll see for the aluminum sector. There may be others.
I know the government's also looking for other markets for our aluminum. I think the U.S. will come to terms with the fact that they need us for aluminum. I hope that happens sooner rather than later.
