International Trade committee  Let me also repeat about our workforce and the cross-training and the tremendous skills they bring forward in the making of all of these products. Pipe really is an engineered product, and the skills that go into it are tremendous. In places like Red Deer we make these premium co

International Trade committee  There is a set of programs in place to help with some of the investment in technologies. We do hope to take advantage of some of those, because they are really critical for our overall competitiveness. Those will be very important to us, for sure.

International Trade committee  I really agree with your comments on redoubling those efforts. If you think about section 232 in the United States, of course the world is impacted in various ways. If you think about how people feel in the United States, I really think there is a general feeling that Canada is

International Trade committee  Yes. From a prioritization standpoint, I think the safeguards are the one really critically important area from our perspective, and obviously a really high priority, of course. The highest priority would be to get on the other side of this issue altogether. For us that is probab

International Trade committee  What I would say is that we're really actively working on this exclusion process, and so we have submitted hundreds. Our customers in the United States, of course, have been really terrific to work with on that process. Both our customers and the legislators in our districts in P

International Trade committee  Good morning, honourable members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today regarding the Canadian steel industry in relation to the section 232 tariff. Evraz is North America's leading producer of large-diameter line pipe, employing over 2,100 people in Sas

International Trade committee  Well, the pipe is already produced for Keystone, so that won't—

International Trade committee  Exactly. So the Keystone pipe is already out there. But clearly the infrastructure around the pipelines, and that balanced development, is really critical for our future. When you think about things like making over $200-million investments in the very high-tech things that we w

International Trade committee  First of all, we definitely applaud the actions around the pipeline infrastructure approvals that occurred in Canada. Those could potentially have an enormous effect. Eventually, when constructed, those will be great.

International Trade committee  It's traded on the London Stock Exchange, and it's also owned privately by a series of Russians....

International Trade committee  I'll start. From our perspective, you've hit on a very critical issue. First of all, we're run as a North American company. We run independently in North America and of course are reporting to our board in London. There are a couple of things. We run 15 recycling centres as w

International Trade committee  Good afternoon, honourable members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today as part of your study. Evraz is the leading producer of large-diameter pipe in North America, employing 1,800 people in Regina, Camrose, and Red Deer. We're in the midst of a $200-m