You're here as the restructuring officer, and your task is reorganizing and getting the company back on its feet. It is not an easy job. It is a very difficult job, I'm sure.
You've chosen to attend these hearings to fight Bill C-501. Let me ask you, though, in terms of your job, whether you have also spent time scheduling meetings with the federal government to ask for loan guarantees to help in those efforts. Have you ever asked the federal government to match or negotiate an end to the massive billions of dollars in U.S. subsidies--such as the black liquor subsidy or the BCAP program--that provided your U.S.-based competitors with more than $10 billion in capital while you were in the middle of restructuring?
Did AbitibiBowater press the federal government and tell them to listen? I'm saying this because I have done that. I have done it in the House. I have pressed the government either to match those subsidies or to ask the Americans to get rid of them. They put our forest companies at a disadvantage. Was part of what happened with restructuring pushing the federal government and saying that these subsidies have to be matched?