The agreement is on the verge of being signed. I trust in the officials of the International Trade Department and in Mr. Emerson on this file. The agreement will be signed as agreed to in Washington a few months ago.
As I said in the House — this is not a new statement — there will be no loan guarantees for the forestry industry because we have reached an agreement that respects... Ninety per cent of Quebec stakeholders approved this agreement as negotiated and a vast majority of softwood lumber businesses in Canada also supported it.