Mr. Chair, the running rules can be interpreted with ominous signs, but the practicalities of day-to-day operating this business are that everybody is running and selling full. Limitations are railcar availability, transportation logistics, and infrastructure around getting the movement of goods. I believe the market share that Canadians will have access to will be adequate for this capacity to continue.
Lumber prices and the economics of running a mill will be a bigger influence on running or not running. I feel that the key for us to manage our business.... I look at the overwhelming realm of needs in an industry such as lumber, and this is just added to it. Information on a daily basis of volume going over the border is a very doable system that will be put in place, and companies will be able to monitor very quickly what's happening in terms of the volume going over and will manage their behaviour accordingly.
Again, I come back to the need for this solution here, but there are mechanisms, systems, and information strategies that can be put in place to deal with the running rules.
Nobody liked the retroactivity. I think it's clear to say this is difficult for us and it will put discipline into an industry that we just cannot afford to go into surge volumes. As the biggest lumber producer, I know this is a risk for us.