I would simply echo the words of my colleague, Monsieur Cardin. Mr. Julian's objections and stalling tactics on this bill are out and out misleading this committee. In fact, as Mr. Cardin pointed out, it's simply some sort of twisted agenda that Mr. Julian has, which is obviously to waste time. At the end of the day, he and his party will be responsible for any delay in implementing this bill and getting billions of dollars back into the hands of Canadian softwood manufacturers that they are waiting for.
He has grossly overestimated the relationship between remanufacturers and tenure. He knows very well that in British Columbia remanufacturers hold tenure not necessarily to ever cut the trees, but to use as a pressure tool in case the mills that supply them decide they want to cut back on their shipments. Again, remanufacturers in British Columbia that hold tenure seldom or ever use their tenure as a source of fibre. Mr. Julian knows this, but of course absence of truth is not necessarily important to him.
I simply wanted to echo Mr. Cardin's words regarding Mr. Julian's blatant partisan display of.... I can't think of the word, Mr. Chairman, so I'd better not say it.