Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  We are doing a lot of work on that front. We're doing a lot of analysis, along with other departments, on carbon border adjustment, trying to figure out exactly how that might work and what its implications could be. The European Union is also well advanced in looking at carbon b

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Absolutely, yes.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I'm afraid I'm not in a position to give you any kind of clear response on that. I'm not involved in those particular discussions about potential assistance because of the border closure. I apologize for that, but that's not my responsibility.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I would be surprised if buy America and buy American were caught up in a lot of those kinds of discussions. I think that the U.S. has made it clear that it wants to continue to pursue those policies of buy America and buy American and will make every effort to protect those. I t

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Yes, what we saw in the infrastructure plan announced yesterday by the Biden administration was that there are no real details about how they would factor in buy America. It certainly reaffirmed that they would intend to have the buy America approach apply, but there are no detai

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  The U.S. has made it clear, or at least President Biden has made it clear, that they are looking at potentially expanding the coverage of buy America in this infrastructure package. As of now, there are no details, as I said, in the package announced yesterday. This is going to h

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  When we did the negotiations on the government procurement issues with the U.S. and the new NAFTA, the U.S. was making us very unattractive offers for how we could conclude an agreement on market access under government procurement. We do have some rules under government procurem

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  We have no indication from the U.S. side that we are the target at all. I think the target is overseas. I think there is a considerable degree of concern about China and some other countries outside North America that are exporting to the U.S. As I said earlier on, the U.S. has

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Absolutely. We're putting quite a bit of effort into doing exactly that, diversifying our market. We have opportunities into the European Union. We have opportunities into Japan and many other countries around the world. I think it certainly serves us well to start to diversify o

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Yes. When it comes to research and development, that's a bit more open. You can certainly spend on research and development if it's not tied directly to a specific product. If it's more general research and development, then there's no real restriction on that. It would depend on

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Yes, I think the difference this time around is that we've had a number of conversations with the Biden administration since they came into office. There's an openness and a willingness to discuss what kind of potential impact some of these policies could have on Canada, and a wi

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  That would be our argument, that if the U.S. is going to provide those funds to state-level governments and lower, in order to have the best kind of outcome, we should not have a result where there are restrictions on Canadian input into those projects. That's what we'd be lookin

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I'll turn to one of my colleagues to see if he has a number offhand, but I would say that our procurement system is quite different from that of the U.S. We have an open procurement system. We don't have a lot of restrictions because we've been looking more for value for money. W

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I'm sorry. I was offline for a second there. If you could repeat the question, that would be great.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Certainly, if the U.S. is using buy America programs to produce products at non-competitive prices and trying to provide those products in the Canadian market, we have recourse for that. Under the government procurement agreement we have at the WTO, while we are exempted under b