Order, please.
This is meeting number 23 of the Standing Committee on International Trade. We're dealing with the softwood lumber deal signed on July 1. This is our third panel for today.
I'd like to start by thanking you all for coming today. I know that it's difficult, and that you have a lot to do and your time is very valuable. So I do appreciate your being here.
We have as witnesses today Elliot Feldman, trade lawyer, Baker & Hostetler. From the Federation of Paper and Forest Workers. we have Sylvain Parent, president. From the United Steelworkers, we have Normand Rivard, council chair.
We'll go ahead, gentlemen. If you each have a short opening presentation, we'll hear them in the order in which you're listed on the notice.
We'll start with Mr. Feldman.