François-Philippe Champagne: “Ultimately, the terms proposed by the U.S. were uneconomic, unfair and ultimately, unacceptable.”

We need to look at partnership in a different way and the great thing is that when you look at Canada - and I would say the United Kingdom - we share the same values.

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

We responded because at some stage you have to say 'enough is enough'. No one can infringe on our economic sovereignty... the world took notice.

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.