The House of Commons trade committee will be back at work later today with a special meeting that has one major aim — demonstrating the broad economic pain of the Trump administration's crushing steel and aluminum tariffs.

The committee will hear nearly four hours of testimony from a dozen witnesses from representatives of metals and auto companies and their unionized workers.

The meeting will bring a number of MPs back to Parliament Hill, uprooting them from their ridings one week after they left the capital for the summer recess.

Liberal MP Mark Eyking, the committee chair, said the meeting represents a show of solidarity aimed at Americans, as well as chance to measure the negative impact on Canadian and American workers from the tariffs...

This was excerpted from the 26 June 2018 edition of CBC News.