right, so this is the jobs bill that the government needed to write to generate demand to maintain a steel industry in canada, which is an intelligent response to the layoffs, rather than the stupid response of threatening to sue the company for reacting to an absence of demand by laying off workers until demand recovers.
i would still rather offshore the steel mills, but upgrading them is a necessary condition to keep them from being shut down for environmental reasons, regardless of concerns about local demand.