International Trade committee  Madam Chair, I think Shendra Melia would be best suited to respond to that.

International Trade committee  Well, it's not really something that I'm on the front lines of. If we're finding that other countries—

International Trade committee  Trade commissioners do have a greater role than I do, so Sara might want to respond to that.

International Trade committee  I may ask if Sara Wilshaw can respond to that.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Well, I think there's certainly wide concern, because if the U.S. does proceed as it's planning, with a $2-trillion infrastructure package, that's a lot of economic opportunity. I think it's recognized that Canada is potentially affected by this more than most others because of o

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Well, again, it's not something that I'm directly involved in or responsible for, I'm afraid, but I certainly understand the concern you're expressing.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Yes, absolutely.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Yes. We have had infrastructure packages in the past, but this is certainly of a far different scale.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  We do want to get in early, which is why we're working closely with the U.S. administration now. We're working closely with the U.S. Congress, U.S. business allies, U.S. union allies and, across the board, different levels of government. Now is the time for us to be doing a full-

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Well, this bill, as we see it now—I mean, it's not yet a bill—once it does enter the U.S. Congress, we do expect that this is going to be assigned to a fairly wide range of different committees within the U.S. Congress, both in the House and on the Senate side. We can certainly k

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  That's right.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Yes, there are certain remedies that we do have available if product is being dumped from the U.S. into our markets, but with respect to some of the issues around the Columbia River treaty, I might ask Eric Walsh who is here as another witness if he has anything he can add on tha

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Unfortunately, I'm not directly involved in that aspect of the work, so I don't know the extent to which that kind of analysis might be going on. As I did mention earlier, there's a continual examination going on about what we should be considering as essential workers and essent

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I do know that there has been a considerable amount of discussion on this. I have not been directly engaged in that myself, but we have a been hearing from the U.S. side many representations making very similar expressions of concern that operations on the U.S. side are strugglin

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  With respect to this infrastructure project, I would say that what we're really looking to achieve is Canadian products being treated the same as U.S. products under this at the end of the day. If we preserve our integrated market, the supply chains that we have established, it w