Finance committee  Yes, that's right.

Finance committee  The intention was to provide some flexibility, but on a temporary basis, given the situation of the market as a whole. The trade environment is fairly complex for many products, but even more so for steel. So this is about providing flexibility to use safeguards again during tha

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  That's right.

Finance committee  As you mentioned, more resources have been given to the Canada Border Services Agency, I believe, to hire up to 40 new officers to deal with compliance issues. The 40 officers are a 50% increase in the number of people doing that kind of work, so it is a meaningful increase. At

Finance committee  As I said, the bill provides some flexibility if market conditions change and the conditions set out in the legislation are met. Those conditions remain unchanged. So there must be an increase in imports and the potential of serious injury caused to domestic producers. None of th

Finance committee  Some conditions must be met. As Ms. Govier vas saying, the increase in imports is more quantifiable and it may be easier to obtain data on that, even for us, while we continue to closely follow steel imports in general. However, the law also requires injury to be caused or poten

Finance committee  Maybe in addition to what Michèle was saying, I think that if safeguards are imposed in the manner of tariff free quotas, there is a quantity that reflects historical imports from offshore sources and that would be surtax free. The aim is not to disrupt the marketplace for those

Finance committee  We had consultations prior to the imposition of countermeasures in June. That was one. We also had consultations prior to the imposition of provisional safeguards, which were solely on steel. The countermeasures were broader, of course, because there were suggestions with respect

Finance committee  With respect to this particular bill, there hasn't been a discussion with any stakeholders at this point.

Finance committee  What we're doing now in a parallel process, which is going to loop back to concerns that we've heard about this bill, although not as part of a specific consultation on this bill.... On April 26, there was an announcement by Minister Morneau of consultation on a further strengthe

Finance committee  I'm sorry?

Finance committee  What are they? First of all, I think people are asking questions, and certainly we've heard some concerns with respect to the potential re-imposition of safeguards, but they are very much separate from the consultation process that we're working on with these stakeholders. These

Finance committee  Maybe I'll answer in general terms. Certainly since, let's say, March of last year, when the prospect of section 232 tariffs being imposed was raised in the United States, we'd been working quite closely with the steel sector. We took a number of measures during the spring of la

Finance committee  The dumping and the subsidization—the countervailing process—are complaint-driven. Companies would complain first to the CBSA, the Canada Border Services Agency, and the CBSA determines whether or not there is dumping—