François-Philippe Champagne: “This is a measure which is very targeted, very broad-based, because that’s what you want when you want to tackle…”

We don’t want any escalation, but at the same time, we have been clear from the get-go we’re going to stand up for Canadian industry, Canadian workers and Canadian businesses.

It’s all about fairness. It’s all about levelling the playing field. It’s all about supporting Canadian workers and Canadian businesses.

We did not choose that trade conflict. We’re just responding to what has been imposed on Canada.

We made the update because I think that was the right thing to do in the interest of Canada.