I was in the partisan business many years ago, so I won't continue your line of partisan comment.
I would point out that we had two economic forces happening: one structural, the decline of written materials and newsprint; and one cyclical, U.S. housing starts. Those were global, international, forces acting on Canada's forest products industry. The Canadian dollar was over par, and that caused our products to be more expensive. There were a number of external factors.
Our industry brought forward the Vision 2020 process and recognized we can't just blame others. We need to actually embrace the future and embrace the opportunity.
Something we haven't talked about at this committee yet today, which I think is very important to remember, is that we are competing with other producers that are also growing. Their governments are investing. The Brazilians and others are investing considerably in their forest products industry. We have people who want to undermine our brand as a Canadian industry, so we need to work collectively to continue to support the green credentials we have, the good work the Boreal Forest Agreement people are doing.
I went through the effluent reductions, and particulate matter reductions, and GHG reductions. We have a good environmental record as a forest products industry in Canada, and we need the provinces and the federal government to stand beside the industry, to help continue to defend that.