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On the morning of September 17, on behalf of the partners and manufacturers taking part in the Well Made Here (WMH) program, Richard Darveau wrote to Prime Minister Mark Carney.
The letter was copied to Ministers Mélanie Joly (Industry, and Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions), Joël Lightbound (Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement, and Quebec Lieutenant), François-Philippe Champagne (Finance and National Revenue) and Gregor Robertson (Housing and Infrastructure).
Below is the full letter. In it, WMH’s President and CEO asks that the program help strengthen, in the hardware and building materials sector, the government’s priority measures to buy Canadian.
Click here to read the lettrer.
The recent decision by the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) in favour of the Bibby-Ste-Croix foundry goes well beyond a sector-specific trade dispute. It marks an important milestone in protecting Canadian manufacturing competitiveness against distortions in international trade.
The Well Made Here program welcome a new participant: Saturn Maple, a steel framing manufacturer based in the Greater Toronto Area.
Dear participating companies to our program,
While tariffs and counter-tariffs affecting softwood lumber are frequently — and rightly — discussed, many companies participating in our program are more directly impacted by measures affecting steel. For this reason, I just asked Minister Joly to ensure that our interests are represented, in coordination with her colleagues responsible for Finance and negotiations with the United States. Lire la suite