International Trade committee  They need to get off of it and get the deal done.

International Trade committee  Well, you need to give customs a bigger stick and more leeway. As I said, piling was coming in from China. We beat them, and they changed the HST code on imports. It was the same damned product, but they just put a different number on it. As far as section 232 goes, listen, I kn

International Trade committee  Algoma is—

International Trade committee  Thank you. Algoma is a great company, and we buy a lot of steel from them. We need them to survive.

International Trade committee  You absolutely need a product-based quota. If you just give a country-based quota, it's hard to implement, first, and second, you're going to have to go country by country by country. You just need a product-based quota. For instance, let's say there are two million tonnes of ho

International Trade committee  The consumer in Canada will have access to the product that's made in Canada. What's the difference? Wouldn't they buy Canadian product rather than imported product? If I could start up my plant, I'd have available product for them. They don't need to access that quota. I'll make

International Trade committee  Yes and no. It's kind of "thanks for nothing," because the imports are already flooding in here. The safeguards don't do anything except prevent even more from coming in. While I say. “Yes, thank you”, they don't do any good. They're not going to increase my production and they'r

International Trade committee  Do you mean a WTO challenge saying that the product has to be made here in Canada? I mean maybe.... I don't know. By the way, I am probably one of the only people who has gone to the WTO in Geneva and spent time there. I was the first CEO who went there, for two weeks. I lobbie

International Trade committee  Quite frankly, when you ask me about the WTO, I would say, “Who cares?” It's about Canada and the jobs here, and our prosperity.

International Trade committee  Again, with respect to piling, we're not even in the business in Canada. These guys circumvent and bring it in from every country, and it's virtually unstopped, because they just change the country of origin or the product code. That's how they circumvent. It's the same on struc

International Trade committee  It depends on where they get their fabricated product. The government spent $3.5 billion buying a pipeline—great. Again, that's with my tax dollars and the gentleman from P.E.I.'s tax dollars, and now they're going to allow a company to hook up to that by bringing in imported fab

International Trade committee  The quota would have to go to the countries importing the products. Are you talking about the consumer in Canada accessing that quota?

International Trade committee  Thank you, Tracey, and thanks for all of the work you've done for our company and our community. I'll give just one example. We know that beams aren't manufactured in Canada at all. When we did the Herb Gray Parkway, which was built in Windsor, 30,000 tonnes of piling for the fo

International Trade committee  Yes, I sympathize with the gentleman. We buy directly from the mills, but our product is all dutiable from the U.S. Most of the steel we use is Canadian-sourced steel, so we're buying from Stelco, Algoma, and the like, and processing that and shipping it. I will tell you that th

International Trade committee  The primary manufacturers are in the United States. We're one of them, so our product is being shipped over to the Canadian consumer and being charged 25% duty, and the Canadian consumer is bearing that for really no reason. They couldn't access that product in Canada since it's