Mrs. Van Loon, the President of the Canadian Steel Producers Association, told us that, given the rather special relations between Canada and the United States regarding the steel trade, if the Americans were giving themselves a baseball bat in their legislation, as she put it, the least we could do was to give ourselves a baseball bat too, even if it is a smaller one. Consequently, we are asking that the Canadian legislation be amended so as to allow our industries to compete with their American competition.
Mme Van Loon, qui est la présidente de l'Association canadienne des producteurs d'acier, nous disait que, compte tenu des relations assez particulières entre le Canada et les États-Unis au niveau du commerce de l'acier, si les Américains se donnaient dans leur législation un «bat» de baseball, pour reprendre son expression, il fallait à tout le moins que le Canada se dote, lui aussi, d'un
