Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like my colleague to keep his cool, and I'm going to correct what he said a little. He said that people in the forestry industry are not available in the summer to meet with us and speak on the subject. I can tell you one thing: Industry business owners unanimously commended us for wanting to request an emergency meeting. If the Bloc Québécois members think they were on the ground, I can tell them that I was there too. Business owners were coming to my office and telling me that something had to be done. They were terribly worried about the future of their industry.
We were therefore extremely surprised that the Bloc Québécois twice rejected inviting the minister to appear before the committee and the forestry industry. We were very surprised by that, especially since the Bloc Québécois supports respecting Quebec's areas of jurisdiction. We were proposing two meetings to discuss all of this.
So, Mr. Chair, I wanted to set the record straight a bit, because I felt that my colleague was getting carried away. He is very emotional about this issue. I think he knows he's lagging behind.