Mr. Speaker, let me first express my great satisfaction with the fact that we have been exempted by the United States on the steel action which is taking place around the world. This is very good news for Canada and demonstrates that our work has been working in Washington. I am very pleased with that.
We have been discussing with industry for some time what to do next. I can say that for months we have been monitoring very closely steel imports into Canada to make sure that there will be no such surge. We continue to monitor exports very closely.
Industry has now asked us to impose some safeguards to avoid Canada becoming a dumping ground. We are reviewing that request and we will be meeting with industry in the next week or so.