Thank you very much, Mr. André.
With respect to the first question about how much money will be designated for the administrative and legal costs, I think the administrative costs will be a relatively constant amount and that will be subject to the consultations with the provinces. Costs incurred for A, B, C, and D will be retained by the federal government.
With respect to legal costs, that's a function of the extent to which (a) there is arbitration, and (b) that we're working with the provinces to ensure that specific programs do not run afoul of the agreement. Those are the two basic legal activities that would precipitate costs by the federal government.
Those are the general dynamics with which we will be engaging provinces who recognize that the federal government will be keeping some money back because of those legitimate costs with respect to the agreement.
You've also raised questions that are best looked at in the anti-circumvention elements of the softwood lumber agreement and that provide for exceptions to prohibitions on programs, including forestry practices. I direct your attention to paragraph 17(c) of the softwood lumber agreement. I'll just read a portion of it for ease of reference: “actions or programs undertaken by a Party, including any public authority of a Party, for the purpose of forest or environmental management, protection, or conservation, including, without limitation, actions or programs to reduce wildfire risk; protect watersheds...”. A whole list of elements are excluded from the prohibitions of the anti-circumvention, and those are the ones that would be working strongly with respect to the ability of provinces to maintain forestry management practices for those purposes.
With respect to the question of how the money that had been transferred back to each province would be used, that is a function of each province's own decisions about how money would be used. All provinces are knowledgeable and understand the exceptions to the prohibitions in the agreement as they relate to forestry management. We would expect, and we are quite sure, they would be working with those parameters they had a share in negotiating during the bringing into agreement of the softwood lumber agreement.
That's the basic dynamic, both for the return of money to provinces as well as the exceptions under the softwood lumber agreement for elements you've identified in terms of forestry management, environment, things of that nature, as well as, I would expect, the parameters for provincial use of the refunds or the charge we transfer back to them, if they choose to put it in areas identified under the agreement. Any province is free to use the moneys it receives for any program within its scope.
I can't speculate any further about how money will be used by provinces.