Listen, it's a great comment and question. I appreciate your leadership in bringing this to the fore. I know that you hosted an event here last week that a couple of our members attended.
In principle, I'd say yes. You raise a point that's unique to our sector in this broader trade dispute, and that's that since we started paying duties in 2017, over $10 billion has been sitting in the U.S. Treasury that will be disbursed if and when an agreement is reached.
Where your approach has been prudent—and we're still ground-testing this with our members across the country—is that you're looking at doing this on the payments going forward, not in the past. In principle, we're very aligned with that and are doing some work based on what you started with Unifor—and Unifor as well—to see how we might operationalize that and get support for it more broadly beyond Quebec. That's what we're doing now.
I would say there's an active conversation about whether more could be done with existing dollars. That's probably a bit more challenging, for a lot of reasons. I think now is the time to be very creative and have all options on the table. If this dispute continues to drag out for weeks and months, we're going to have a lot of devastated communities and families.
I appreciate the initiative. I actually talked to Unifor about this earlier today. We will continue to work to see if we can turn this into something more final and robust.