Essentially, Mr. Chair, as I know you're aware, the ECC, the extraordinary challenge committee, was suspended at the end of April. This particular ECC hearing is non-appealable and would force the removal of these illegal countervailing tariffs, almost all of the tariffs that are imposed on our softwood lumber. It's contained within the agreement in a number of different areas.
The issue, Mr. Chair, really is that we need to make sure that alternatives are looked at, and one of the clear alternatives that provides us with more leverage.... Whether you agree with this agreement and that further negotiation is required, as some members of the industry say, or whether you believe the agreement itself is not even good enough to adopt, in either case, Canada's leverage needs to be increased. That issue can come to a conclusion through that final ECC challenge.
That is non-appealable, Mr. Chair, as I'm sure you're aware. What that does is take off the bulk of the tariffs--almost all of them that are currently being levied against softwood lumber. And given that, I move this motion.