“The Prime Minister is allowing a new gas project to use steel from China instead of steel from Canadian workers. I want him to explain why he is sending these jobs out of the country.”

“Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister loves to take credit for projects that were approved before he ever became Prime Minister. Soon enough, he is going to be announcing that he is granting a permit for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Speaking of those projects, not only has he failed to buy Canadian; he now cannot build Canadian. Just after the announcement that, after a 10-year delay, LNG phase two is going ahead, we now learn that the steel will not come from the out-of-work Hamilton steelworkers. It will come from China. Why is the Prime Minister sending our steel jobs to Beijing?”

“A major Canadian project is buying its steel from China instead of Canada, right after hundreds of Hamilton steelworkers were laid off. The Prime Minister is letting cheap Chinese steel take jobs from Canadian workers. I want this project to be built with Canadian steel.”

“Mr. Speaker, the principal supplier of steel for the project will, again, be China. That is something we found out the very week the legendary company Stelco announced it was going to be laying off 350 people and idling its plant in Hamilton. The Prime Minister puts Canadian steelworkers out of a job and grants a permit for Beijing to dump its artificially subsidized steel on Canadian soil. Why can we not build Canadian with Canadian steel?”

“The government is buying more steel from an American company and allowing a major project to use steel from China. I want the Prime Minister to put Canadian workers first and use Canadian steel for projects in Canada.”

“Mr. Speaker, of course they deserve better from their American owner. Canadians deserve better than a Prime Minister who sends their tax dollars down to reward those same companies with purchases up 50% as a share of government purchases. We then have LNG phase two. It took the Liberals 10 years to get it going. Those steelworkers, who thought they might have a hope to supply the bones of that project, learned that the Prime Minister has sold them out and granted a permit for that steel to come from China. Why will he not put Canadians first, with Canadian steel in Canadian projects?”