International Trade committee  I'm happy with the process in terms of timing, yes.

International Trade committee  Of course, communication is a two-way process. It's not one way. To that extent, I cannot comment about the effectiveness of it. What I can say is that companies like us have been able to communicate well with the government. Coming out in June and doing it in September when we

International Trade committee  As I said, auto is big part of our total customer base. If the volumes of auto come down, it will affect us. Canadian manufacturing has shrunk over the last 10 to 15 years, so that's not a question. Auto shrinking will have a really devastating effect on us. To that extent, I fe

International Trade committee  We are happy with what the government has done, but we need the safeguard and a resolution to section 232 as a tariff going away or having a product-wise, company-wise quota coming in immediately. That would be helpful.

International Trade committee  I can only say that quotas that are not company-wise and product-wise can work with countries that supply commodity products, or plain vanilla products, to the U.S. like South Korea, where the quantities are very small. In the case of Canada, we have contracts, one-year contrac

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  Are you asking me?

International Trade committee  When it came out, we put in a letter of intent about three weeks back, and we were told that we can start applying. We are putting in an application and we hopefully should apply next week.

International Trade committee  We are applying to get some capex dollars, primarily to make our steel plant more efficient, more productive, and in the process, more sustainable in the future.

International Trade committee  No, it's not for hiring. It's basically for modernizing so that we can produce different grades of steel, which will be used for building the navy ships or bridges and other things, which at the moment are not made in Canada. We would be able to make it in the future.

International Trade committee  If we get into quotas, it is important that the government ensures the quota is distributed to each company product-wise, based on past exports to the U.S., and it is not given as a free-for-all. That will lead to.... Basically, whoever gets to the border first completes the quot

International Trade committee  First of all, let me say that I don't have a real understanding of the agreement. We do supply some percentage of our steel to the auto industry, and from what I could understand from the part of the letter on the auto industry, there is an expansion scope, which would definitely

International Trade committee  We are thankful to the government for the $250-million SIF announcement, and Algoma has put in the intent to apply and will be applying in the next few days to make the steel plant more sustainable in the future.

International Trade committee  Thank you. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to appear here today to speak about the impact of U.S. tariffs on Canadian businesses, companies and workers. Today, I represent over 3,000 employees who work at Algoma in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

International Trade committee  Do you mean export out of North America?