International Trade committee  Are you talking about the Great Falls plant, or the one in Terrebonne, or about the employers?

International Trade committee  We have indeed discussed this with some of our clients, and some employers, and they are really reluctant to commit to a Canadian company. They have no interest in doing so. They don't want to commit because they don't know what the future holds, anymore than we do. Basically, e

International Trade committee  We try to limit steel purchases in the United States as much as possible. We know that some fairly high tariffs will apply to steel imported into the U.S. So we are trying to purchase steel outside of the United States, or in Canada, if possible. As for the business we do in th

International Trade committee  It's easier to move management jobs than assembler or welder jobs. It's impossible to move those employees, because they really work in the factory. The Terrebonne plant is at a disadvantage with regard to the Montana plant, because transportation is far too expensive to simply m

International Trade committee  A gentleman whose name escapes me spoke about this earlier. We have used the federal government's Work Sharing program. Our application was accepted and we have benefited from this for about a month. Given the current circumstances, there is no doubt that a 26-week period is ver

International Trade committee  That is correct.

International Trade committee  The bank account keeps going down, and we're going to have to lay off more people. We never want to go there, but our main market is the American market. If the Canadian market had more work for us, then surely we'd work here a lot more. With the American market being so aggressi

International Trade committee  Thank you. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to thank you for the invitation to participate in this committee. ADF Group was founded by my grandfather, back in 1956, as a blacksmith's shop. Today ADF is a key player in the manufacturing of structural steel components i