M-193 National steel procurement strategy

That, in the opinion of the House, the government should:

(a) acknowledge the importance of the Canadian steel industry in employing more than 23,000 Canadians and contributing $4.2 billion to Canada’s gross domestic product in 2017;

(b) recognize the important role that the use of Canadian steel in Canada plays in the reduction of greenhouse emissions through reduced transport emissions, improvements by Canadian steel producers in the production of steel, access to raw materials, support for recycling, and Canada’s progress in growing non-GHG emitting energy sources;

(c) support the symbolic importance of the use of Canadian steel in major Crown infrastructure projects and federal real property purchases and upgrades, such as the Parliamentary Precinct Long Term Vision and Plan (LTVP);

(d) create a National Steel Procurement Strategy;

(e) ensure that the strategy in (d) respects Canada’s free trade agreements and obligations, and respects the government’s principles of fair, open, transparent, and competitive procurements;

(f) align the strategy with the government’s recent strengthening of Canada’s trade remedy system and support for the Canadian steel industry;

(g) consider, in cases exempt from free trade agreements and obligations, the use of Canadian steel as an element of the Industrial and Technological Benefits Policy;

(h) examine the national security implications of the use of foreign steel in major Crown infrastructure projects;

(i) provide support and training for Canadian steel producers to participate in and partner with companies that do business with the Government of Canada;

(j) report to Parliament on the use and origin of steel in the construction, maintenance or repair of public works, federal real property or federal immovable; and

(k) request that the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates undertake a study on how the government could develop a National Steel Procurement Strategy, taking the above into consideration.