Industry committee  Certainly, there is increasing technology, no question. Workforces at a steel facility are not what they used to be.

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

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

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

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

Finance committee  Yes.

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

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

Finance committee  The average steelworker in Canada makes between $75,000 and $85,000. These are highly trained and highly educated individuals.

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

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

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