Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
We're refusing even to provide a 90-day period for the appeal process. We're refusing even that. The application--it is simply imposed upon the softwood company, the softwood person, 30 days after it's mailed to them. Goodness knows when they receive it if there's a long weekend or if it's mailed across the country. It doesn't say where it's mailed from, but it's often from Ottawa to Vancouver. If you're in northern British Columbia, we could be talking about a week and a half. We have imposed on these companies a scant week--two weeks, maybe--to make their application to appeal.
It is absolutely irresponsible, Mr. Chair--there's no other word for it--that we would put into place legislation that we know is going to impose penalties that are beyond belief to these softwood companies. All they wanted to do was sell their product, and they're not going to be permitted to do even that.