Steven MacKinnon: “We all know that the North is central to Canada's economic future.”

Hamilton's steel industry is of vital, strategic, national importance, as are the producers in steel industries from all over Canada.

This legislation will give our country the tools we need to build more, better and more efficiently.

I would say that the motivation for doing it this particular way was to have a committee that would devote itself to this entire bill.

We will always work collaboratively with our partners in studying the region’s connectivity needs and protecting the interests of local residents.