Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I have sixty seconds on clause 32. What are the implications of that for Canadians and Canadian softwood workers who bear the brunt of the past few years and are now having this appallingly bad legislation forced on them because of this committee? What are we doing with clause 32? We're simply saying that the moment the amount is required to be paid, the softwood company—those poor mom-and-pop operations in northern B.C.—are required to pay those amounts immediately. If they don't, we'll see later on, Mr. Chair, that we're talking about a series of punitive actions—18 months in prison and that kids' trust funds can be taken over—because this government, with the support of opposition parties, is ramming through the unthinkable: the most draconian legislation that, as many members of the softwood industry said, follows the worst negotiation in Canadian history.
So in sixty seconds, without any due consideration, it's impossible to pay justice to the impact that ramming through clause 32 has. It requires that companies pay immediately, that they enter that jungle of punitive actions, which the government can take--