All right.
If there aren't any markets, there aren't any jobs, and that means no jobs for young people. I don't know how you can't understand that, Ms. Koutrakis.
As long as the tariffs stay as high as they are now, jobs will be in jeopardy—that is a fact. The U.S. is even proposing to raise them. We can't let the Europeans eat our lunch when they are thousands of kilometres away. That's outrageous. We have to continue negotiating with the Americans.
Every single day, young people in my riding go to work in the forestry industry, and they have a lot of questions about how the federal government is engaging with the U.S. right now. To be perfectly frank, it's not going well. When I look at the solutions you're proposing, I can see they have merit. Nevertheless, the government has clearly done a poor job of negotiating with the U.S. to date, and it's having an impact on jobs for young people. I say that for the benefit of my fellow member Ms. Koutrakis. Can young people really picture a future in the regions? We definitely need to focus on the regions. Canada's big cities are great, but we have regions too, and they are the ones supplying a key material big cities need to build housing. The industry needs those jobs and those young people.
What else can you recommend to give young Canadians working in the forestry sector a bit of hope?
What you said about contractors or businesses working in the forestry sector is important. In many cases, they are self-employed people operating incredibly expensive equipment, so they need solutions for the future too.