Industry committee  I'm glad you brought that up, because we're seeing it as well. We've been seeing it for steel for many years. Aluminum is obviously becoming more popular, so we're seeing it more on aluminum. If this were a panel of Mexican government officials, I'd be saying exactly the same thi

Industry committee  Yes. What I'm trying to highlight there is that we're not the kind of manufacturer that has a purchase order agreement for something that we produce and then it leaves. We have five-year agreements, so if one of my members receives a purchase order from the United States, it's fo

Industry committee  For a long time I've tried to answer that question from both sides: from the OEM and from the tier-one, tier-two and tier-three levels. Recently, I've changed my viewpoint. I think they actually have to be broken apart because they're two different strategies entirely. Tier ones

Industry committee  With regard to the effects on production and supply in this agreement, as long as they go into finished goods, I believe it will help. When we're using Canadian or U.S. aluminum or steel for finished goods, I believe the agreement has lots of opportunities. From a raw product s

Industry committee  We recognize that, and very much so. The raw product itself has one classification, but it changes classifications once it becomes a fabricated product. The way in which you calculate the regional value content is very important. It's very easy for a manufacturer, let's say from

Industry committee  Good morning, Madam Chair and committee members. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you. My name is Jonathon Azzopardi, past chair of the Canadian Association of Mold Makers. I am the current director of international affairs for the association and president of Lav

International Trade committee  Maybe I can speak to what I'll be doing next week. I will be meeting with the Indian government, the Canadian government and probably six different manufacturers in India. Then I will take that with a market research package, and I'll be creating a package that we'll hand to Can

International Trade committee  Or working in conjunction with us...yes.

International Trade committee  We believe that one comes before the other. We believe that, if the foundation isn't here in Canada.... We are committed to creating Canadian jobs. We're committed to paying Canadian corporate taxes, but we can't do that if we don't have an environment suitable for that. We belie

International Trade committee  Good morning. Thank you again for giving us the opportunity to present. To give you an idea of how important international trade is to our association and our industry, I'll give you my schedule for the next two weeks. As part of my job, I'm to promote our industry here in Canad

International Trade committee  Thank you.

International Trade committee  Quickly, what I believe you're not seeing that is transpiring right now is that you're going to have great Canadian manufacturers in companies that are going to go on sale. There will be great merchandise that will be sold out to foreign investment. We are questioning right now w

International Trade committee  Do you mean CRA or ISED?

International Trade committee  We have spoken to ISED. We had a meeting with Minister Bains, and we had a discussion about the threshold for SIF. They said they would get back to us with some type of program or response. We haven't received anything yet. In terms of the CRA, that's an ongoing discussion all th

International Trade committee  We believe an alternative way for the government to engage is directly with the associations. If you engage with the associations, you can get direct access, at least in our case, to about 216 mould makers—about a third of steel fabrication employment—by dealing with us directly.