International Trade committee  I don't believe there is going to be a significant export opportunity for Canadian steel in Mercosur. The transportation alone is prohibitive. To compete you're getting into a fairly low-grade product that I don't think the Canadian industry wants to be a participant in just to h

International Trade committee  Thank you very much. Good morning to the honourable members of the committee, and thank you, as always, for the opportunity to present today on behalf of the Canadian Steel Producers Association, as this committee undertakes its important task of studying the implications of a p

Natural Resources committee  First, to the tariffs, I think the entire Government of Canada should be commended for the work that it did and I include the work of the steel caucus. David Sweet, from the Conservative Party, was part of a delegation that went down and met with congressional colleagues in June

Natural Resources committee  Our position is it should be a fair and open competition where the right material is chosen for the right job. I tend to believe in a lot of those instances, given the performance of the material, given its advantages in construction, given the advantages from a GHG perspective o

Natural Resources committee  —yes, the right solution. Life-cycle analysis generally is an evolving science. I'll speak to steel specifically. Production in steel, the way we make steel, is constantly evolving. I would argue that no industry is more focused on reducing its GHG emissions than steel. A life-

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that generally tends to be the knock-on effect from this.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. I'd make an argument that you would not only slow down the innovation in wood, but by disincentivizing a material like steel or a material like cement from participating in the infrastructure environment, you would disincentivize innovation there. Steel, from an infrastruct

Natural Resources committee  It's difficult to take a granular approach to examining it. Clearly, there has been an incentive to using wood in those markets. We've seen increased wood construction in those markets. Those are jobs the steel industry is not going to participate in so there's an effect. That is

Natural Resources committee  Based on ideology?

Natural Resources committee  I don't think you want to create a competitive imbalance among materials in the Canadian marketplace. I guess I draw a bit of a distinction here. I appreciate that there are arguments to be made for using domestic infrastructure funds to support the domestic economy, to ensure th

Natural Resources committee  Well, yes, I don't think—

Natural Resources committee  I don't think it's good government policy to lock in a preference for any one material, just bluntly.

Natural Resources committee  I think we have some great success stories to tell in the Canadian steel industry in more innovative advanced manufacturing with some of the most efficient and advanced producers in the world. Clearly, the last several weeks in steel have been remarkable, given the sort of acti

Natural Resources committee  From a steel perspective, Canada is a very unique market in that we are extraordinarily close to the natural resources that are required for the process of making steel. We have close proximity to metallurgical coal, to iron ore, to the raw materials that go into steel. We are al

Natural Resources committee  Clearly, if you establish a preference for one building material over others, then that is inherently a disincentive to take a look at.... I'll use the example of a building design that fundamentally frames the building or completes the structure with steel or concrete or an alte