Yes, I would like to acknowledge the comments by my colleague that the Liberals did have a $1.5 billion fund, but I believe it was just announced; it never was funded. But what we did with the softwood lumber agreement was that there was $5 billion returned. It wasn't a loan; it was actual cash back to the companies.
We do have to look at this, because it is a substantial amount of money. Again, the Bloc did support us on the softwood lumber agreement. And by doing a $1.5 billion reimbursable contribution, some type of loans, it would put Canada's international agreements at jeopardy to do something like that.
I want to point out to the committee as well that I had the opportunity to sit in the international trade committee yesterday, which had a very similar motion, and one of the Liberal colleagues made a very good point—I believe it was Mr. Maloney. This has been put forth in four different committees, and it calls for adoption and report back to the House, which would mean three hours of debate, so 12 hours altogether to debate this motion. His comment was that would be an irresponsible thing to do in the House of Commons. So in that committee, that was totally removed from their motion.
I'd just like to point that out.