Mr. Speaker, I know that Mr. Trump is an irrational political player, but personally, I do not believe that the Americans should be imposing tariffs on aluminum, because they do not produce primary aluminum. If I remember correctly, there is only one aluminum smelter operating in the United States. We are the biggest producers of primary aluminum in North America. It is Quebec, particularly my region and the north shore, that produces all of the aluminum. It would be rather odd to add tariffs for the Americans who process it.
However, we have seen in the past that Mr. Trump can sometimes act irrationally. If we want to guard against that, I still think that we should increase aluminum processing here at home. To make that happen, the federal government could invest reasonable amounts. We were simply asking the government to take $120 million from the 2018 counter-tariffs and put it into a permanent fund. That is not too much to ask of the federal government, but it never agreed to do so. At the same time, however, it is prepared to put $34 billion into a pipeline. That is almost $83 billion that the government is going to invest in the pipe dream of clean oil by 2035. What a double standard.