I want to thank the panel for showing up and giving their input on this important issue. It's a very important one for me and my riding. I don't think there's a community in the riding that isn't impacted by the softwood lumber deal, so it's paramount to the riding I represent.
All the panellists have suggested that this deal isn't perfect. I've never heard anybody on either side of the border suggest that it is. I hear Atlantic Canada saying they could live with it; I hear Ontario saying that they're nervous because of the details and that they don't have enough information to say one way or the other; and I hear Alberta saying the same, with the caveat that we don't have surge protection for a paramount problem: the pine beetle. I know it's coming across the border now into our riding through the Jasper area, Willmore Park, and other areas.
Perhaps the words of the minister a while back were right: the devil is in the details. It's the details we're trying to work out, and I think that's what the committee is hoping to be a catalyst for, to be able to get some of these details and voices heard, so that the details of the agreement can take this situation into consideration.
But I'd like to go back to the pine beetle issue. Is it true or not that the pine beetle is actually mutating somewhat, and potentially into the jack pine? If it comes across into Alberta and then into jack pine, it can flood into Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. What kind of projected timelines could we see?
Can you have a quick answer on that, Trevor or Murray?