‘I have no doubt there are ships now looking for some place to dock and dump,’ says a union leader after five of seven ‘safeguards’ against foreign steel were removed
When George Orwell railed against the use of political language to cloak policy failures, “like a cuttlefish squirting out ink”, he was talking about efforts like the press release that emerged from the Department of Finance late last Friday afternoon.Finance minister Bill Morneau told Canada’s 23,000 steelworkers: “We have your back” as the industry continued to toil against Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum that persist, despite the agreement on a new NAFTA trade deal, the USMCA.
Canada’s ambassador to Washington, David MacNaughton, was in Ottawa on Tuesday and the response to the removal of many of the safeguards, and the continued U.S. steel and aluminum levy, was top of the agenda. The government is under intense pressure from a united front of steel manufacturers and union bosses, all intent on wringing more protectionist support.
Money has been sprinkled across the country — $40 million for tubular steel maker Evraz in Regina, largesse the CBC reported would create a grand total of 35 new jobs for the company controlled by Russian billionaire and Chelsea FC chairman, Roman Abramovich; $90 million for Ontario’s Algoma Steel; $49.9 million for ArcelorMittal Canada and so on.
“The Tribunal is of the view that much of the evidence of threat of serious injury relied upon by the domestic producers is unsupported,” the report concluded. It certainly highlighted the unsentimental nature of multinational steel production, undermining the government’s great patriotic defence of the domestic industry with billions of public dollars.
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