Finance committee  If I may, Bill C-101 removes a barrier to implementing safeguards right away, not in two years but immediately. What the bill says, before this amendment is put in place, is that you must wait two years before you can do safeguards again for the same product. What this amendment

Finance committee  No, we'll be ready to use it much sooner than that. We're going to need it soon.

Finance committee  This legislation does not violate the WTO rules. It's a change to Canadian legislation.

Finance committee  Yes, I would say that the trend has been downwards on all products, most products. Dave, do you want to make a comment from your product category?

Finance committee  I would just like to be reflective for a moment and say how important and impressive it was to have the Team Canada approach. I think what happened was that no matter what party and political stripe we were from, what community we were from, what side of the business ledger we we

Finance committee  I personally have already made this point, and I would like to double down on it in the sense that there's been a working group that's looking at strengthening our trade remedy system. It sounds “techie”, but it's really important. We must strengthen our borders and our mechanism

Finance committee  I actually was giving a pause because I don't know, Dave, if you're still there, but Dave was the chairman of one of the working group subcommittees on CBSA, so he's very well versed. Dave, did you want to come on?

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, if I may jump in, I'll just point out that there was an allocation of new resources in the last budget. That was certainly a step in the right direction but—as Dave is alluding to—there are other things that can be done that industry and government agree should be done

Finance committee  Right. From the CITT's perspective, it's talking about the decision-making process to go from provisionals to final, which I don't think this legislation changes. This legislation really just removes the barrier to revisiting safeguards so that you no longer have to wait two year

Finance committee  Yes, thank you very much for that comment. I had that thought earlier, to talk about the sense and the understanding with the U.S. that gives us the certainty that they see the world the same way we do; that there's overcapacity. These risks are significant, and we all need to ac

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for having me. My name is Catherine Cobden, and as mentioned, I am the president of the Canadian Steel Producers Association. We thank you very much for the opportunity to provide input to you in terms of your pre-budg

Finance committee  Absolutely. I'm assuming you're talking about the investment assistance through the strategic innovation fund that took place as a result of the tariffs. It's important to understand that the tariffs had a deep and relentless effect on the Canadian steel industry. They were uncal

Finance committee  It's important to recognize that the government was working with what it could. Definitely, the SIF program generated important investments that focused on our competitive position, started some of our green transformation, and helped to ensure that our industry had an opportunit

Finance committee  I can't comment on rare earths specifically, but as an industry, we are under intense pressure from unfairly traded imports from around the world. It is something that we must remain vigilant on, and we must ensure that we have all of the trade mechanisms as sufficiently as possi

Finance committee  Yes. As I tried to allude to in my remarks, we think that's an excellent opportunity, and it's one that can be managed because we know that when we use Canadian steel in Canadian projects, we have a very significantly reduced carbon footprint compared with some of those foreign i