François-Philippe Champagne: “When the United States asked too much and offered too little, we chose to stand up for Canadians.”

This was a moment of great opportunities and to strengthen the existing relationship between Canada and the EU.

Obviously this is an important measure in terms of affordability so we'll certainly look into that.

We did not wake up one day and say, ‘What are we going to do?’ We had already a number of plans in place. Plan A has always been to build, to support, to protect our economy and our workers.

When there are (U.S.) actions that are taken, we always have to make sure that our response is proportionate. We don’t want to escalate, but we, at the same time, want to make sure we have a level playing field with American companies who…