Again, thank you for that.
I met with the independent lumber remanufacturers this morning, as a matter of fact. You're quite correct in your statements that the independent remanufacturers have been very seriously hit by the softwood lumber dispute, for the reasons you've already indicated. Their livelihood is basically driven off of getting low-grade product from the integrated operators and remanufacturing it to a higher-value product, which makes them also the fundamental building block of the value-added part of the industry. So they're critically important to the industry. They've been disproportionately hurt.
What we have to focus on is how to ensure they benefit disproportionately going forward. In International Trade, we will be retaining an expert who will work specifically and solely with the independent remanufacturers to assess ways we can ensure, going forward, that their business is built on the economics of their business, not on some artificial behavioural reaction to what may or may not happen five or ten years down the road--which has happened, as you've indicated. A number of big producers, the integrateds, have in fact done a lot of their own remanufacturing or sent the low grade to the United States, because they want to build up a shipment history that would be advantageous in the event that we eventually go back to a quota.
I recognize that, so we're going to be working with them to see if we can find a solution that gives them a secure and prosperous future.