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House Hansard - 8

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 1, 2021 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 8 - Dec/1/21
Mr. Alistair MacGregor (Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, NDP)
  • Dec/1/21 8:34:05 p.m.
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Mr. Chair, I appreciate my colleague's speech and I quickly want to give a shout-out to the hard-working men and women of the steelworkers union in my riding, who work very hard in the mills in Cowichan—Malahat—Langford to provide for their families. In British Columbia we are developing designs for a lot of mass timber structures, which of course have a much lower carbon footprint than buildings made out of steel and cement. I am wondering if my colleague could talk about these emerging technologies and how we do need to stand up for Canadian workers but also to make a concerted push to U.S. industries, because of course they are going to suffer from the tariffs on these. The U.S. homebuilders are the ones who are going to suffer, but there are some amazing technologies coming and we really need to see the Canadian government stand up for that abroad.
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