International Trade committee  I think the buy American issue is a good one to discuss.

International Trade committee  It cannot be handled within the institutional context of NAFTA, although I would argue that there are grounds for doing so, because this is federal legislation imposing federal conditions on how federal money is being spent. You could argue that this should be tied to the federal

International Trade committee  Well, it certainly is threatening jobs in Canada. We have identified around 250 of our members who are affected just by the Water Quality Investment Act alone here, who are selling into municipal and state water technology and clean water and waste water sectors. Many of these co

International Trade committee  It would depend on what the range of procurement projects actually is, but if you look at the municipal waste water and clean water industry, you're looking at $1.9 billion coming from the United States into Canada. You're looking at about $600 million of exports going from Canad

International Trade committee  That's right.

International Trade committee  We have three municipalities in Ontario that have signed on to the Halton Hills resolution. That resolution is going to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities at its conference on June 6 and is driven by local municipalities. So we'll see June on 6 if there's a resolution comi

International Trade committee  No, I don't think we could. I don't think we want to go there. But I can tell you that it's the only issue, in building allies in the United States in the business community and among business associations, that can say that these buy America provisions should not be in legislati