Mr. Chair, we are not dealing with the Canadian lumber industry, we're dealing with 400 individual lumber companies, all with different economics, in 10 different provinces, with different wood baskets and different costs of doing business. The tragedy in this file is that everybody has a different need, and there is nothing worse than a strong Canadian dollar, low housing starts in the United States, high costs of transportation. All these elements build to a very difficult market condition. With over 400 different views of what's needed for them, I don't see any other way of getting around to some consistency here.
On August 21st, 2006. See this statement in context.