Industry committee  Mr. Svendsen's earlier reference to the steel industry and the concentration of power is a great example, but we no longer have any Canadian steel industry ownership; the industry is owned now by the Brazilians and East Indians and South Africans, by other countries. When you hav

Industry committee  That steel industry is a fundamentally strong industry because, remember, for every job in that industry there are four others servicing the industry. As much as it possibly has not kept up with technology, there is still some room for it to improve. We have some world-class stee

Industry committee  Right now, the establishment of interprovincial barriers for trade is significant. There's been some work done between Alberta and B.C. The barrier has been quantified as a $4 billion barrier, and that's what they're trying to tear down. Interprovincial trade barriers were recent

Industry committee  Very quickly, there is a forum right now that has the potential of being functional, but it seems to have a tremendous amount of drag, and that's the Canadian Steel Partnership Council. It is not moving forward fast enough, but the forum is there to address these issues in the en

Industry committee  When you compare China, for example, with what we have in Canada, there's no question that we have a lower cost of energy and we have better material costs. So how can they possibly be producing products and landing into North America at such low prices? Obviously everyone goes

Industry committee  Very much so. It's well documented, on how to do constructed value analysis, and it is a technique that's used in Ottawa with the evaluation. But yes, per manufactured product, that can be done.

Industry committee  Yes, thank you. In terms of my comment earlier, east-west trade is something that we're not comfortable with in Canada. We've grown up with a tremendous amount of north-south involvement. What are the benefits? In Quebec particularly there's a very strong structural fabrication

Industry committee  When we most recently evaluated the capability of other companies in Canada through the various trade missions coming into Alberta, we saw a huge gap in Canada in the capability of innovation and of performance and experience these companies have relative to other regions of Cana

Industry committee  Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it's a pleasure to have the opportunity to address you on the subject of manufacturing competitiveness in Canada, with specific reference to Alberta. To establish my personal background, I've recently retired from a 34-year career with