International Trade committee  I can answer that question. In theory you can, but what you need to do is treat your domestic products the same as you treat imports. If we begin measuring what the GHG footprint is of the product we make in Canada, we can begin to ask at the border. Using the same methodology—a

International Trade committee  In general, Canada's system works relatively efficiently from beginning to end. The formal process is nine months. We begin working maybe another three months in advance of that. We can provide you with a list of the roughly seven ways that we see circumvention happening. I'd l

International Trade committee  I can answer that. Most of Canada's steel industry is oriented around goods that are used in Canada, and I would say that Canada's steel industry is unlikely to benefit significantly from investments made overseas. Today there are almost no duties on products that come into Canad

International Trade committee  I would agree completely. There's an opportunity, though, for us to share the information so that customers know, when they make a decision to purchase something from China, that they're buying something that has produced three times the amount of GHG emissions and that if they c

International Trade committee  Yes. The biggest challenge we have today is with unfair trade. There have been 600 trade cases around the world. Many of these are in steel and steel products. We have had challenges. We appreciate that the trade remedy is important to resolve these issues. With regard to each

International Trade committee  Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this study. It's an important time for the industry, and it's an important time for our operations in Canada. We appreciate the multi-party support and the multi-party aspect of this, in particular on trade remedy effectiveness. It w