I think we can all agree that since the expiry of the last softwood lumber agreement, a number of years have gone by. The previous Government of Canada, in that four- or five-year period, wasn't able to come to an agreement, and that's a shame. That hurt our industry, there's no doubt about that.
But from purely a tax point of view, I think your suggestion, while it might be a nice thing to do, would throw the current Canadian tax laws into a form of chaos and would set a very tough precedent for the government to have to deal with. While that may make tax lawyers across the country pretty happy with countless hours of billing fees challenging the tax department from that point on, to whenever the world ended--I'm sure it would keep going--it wouldn't be good for our tax law.