Mr. Chairman, I don't see how the government could introduce legislation on an agreement that has been rejected by the main stakeholders.
I just want to avoid that happening, because it would put us in a very delicate political situation; perhaps that is the objective. I believe -- and this is the position of the Conseil de l'industrie forestière du Québec -- that with certain changes, the July 1st agreement could be considered acceptable, at least by the Quebec industry. And that is precisely the message we want to convey to government. If it introduces legislation based on the July 1st agreement, there is no doubt that it will be extremely difficult to garner the support of any of the Opposition parties. In our opinion, we should not wait for that to happen; indeed, we believe such a situation should be avoided. We want to ensure that the message we send to government will be sufficiently clear to allow it to take corrective action.