Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the opportunity to talk to clause 55, which we seem to be willing to adopt regardless of the consequences.
Sixty seconds. It's a sixty-second move on objections to an assessment.
What softwood companies are going to be caught in is this appallingly severe net that is being constructed by the Minister of International Trade. For the assessment, we haven't seen a really valid appeal period--it's a very short period of time--for softwood companies that are endeavouring to keep up with the administrative burden as well as all of the punitive taxes and keep their doors open as a result of this particular agreement. And what we are doing in the agreement and the bill is punishing them yet again, ensuring that they can't make the application if it goes on one year beyond the assessment date.
What a ridiculous concept, Mr. Chair, that these companies that have given so much and that have borne the brunt of the softwood fight on their own do not have any opportunities--