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Finance committee First and foremost, thank you, honourable members, for the opportunity to present in front of you today on behalf of the Canadian Steel Producers Association. Our association represents 10 primary steel producers and steel product manufacturers in Canada, with member facilities
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Finance committee We would like to note that strong and consistent action defending Canada's fair market principles generates the needed confidence that investments in Canada will be protected against anti-competitive behaviours from other jurisdictions. In a highly capital-intensive and technolog
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Finance committee Certainly they've taken some strong legislative action. It's an area to which the U.S. administration has really turned its attention from a trade perspective. The U.S. sent two very senior political representatives from the Obama administration to the OECD meeting that I mention
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Finance committee Absolutely. We are a fully integrated steel market here in North America. We've seen some instances where ships that we believe were originally destined for the United States have instead come to ports like Hamilton because they believe it's a more attractive place to offload. T
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Finance committee The average steelworker in Canada makes between $75,000 and $85,000. These are highly trained and highly educated individuals.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Finance committee Yes.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Finance committee First, to touch on the point you were making about the prevalence of dumping, we know it's going on. Our producers are very aware of it. To give you a particularly prescient example, I get all kinds of solicitations in my email to buy Chinese steel. I get about five or six a week
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Finance committee You make an excellent point about fair trade and free trade. We believe that all of the measures proposed here are WTO-compliant. This is really about a level global playing field. We're talking about the prevention of dumping and subsidy. We're not talking about the prevention o
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Finance committee I don't want to minimize the challenges facing the domestic industry. A couple of our larger members are currently in CCAA processes. They're doing restructuring for sale. We are optimistic, or they have expressed optimism, that there are viable assets there; that these will be s
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Finance committee We're primarily focused on trade, but I would say there are enough actors and bad actors in the system that there is going to be an element of product that arrives here that is probably not going to be satisfactory. I'd certainly leave that with the building code folks, or the in
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Industry committee Thank you, honourable members, for the opportunity to present to the committee today on behalf of the Canadian Steel Producers Association. I appreciate the chance to be here. Our association represents 10 primary steel producers and steel product manufacturers in Canada. We hav
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Industry committee Technology and training. Technology is crucial in terms of process modernization, increased productivity, increasingly sophisticated product, and increasingly complex demands from the customer. Training—better equipping folks on the floor to undertake those processes—has been c
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Industry committee Certainly, there is increasing technology, no question. Workforces at a steel facility are not what they used to be.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Industry committee Well, no. To be clear, labour costs in Canada are not ever going to be low enough that they are going to compete with China. The differential is enormous.
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti
Industry committee No. We're competitive with China. We operate within the North American market. It's an integrated market between ourselves and the United States. A lot of our value chain efficiencies are crucial there and provide a lot of our operational advantage. Frankly, for the high-quality
May 17th, 2016Committee meeting
Joseph Galimberti