This particular lobbyist was asked to take a year off from his job as vice-president of Lindal Cedar Homes because the membership of the ILRA realized that somebody had to look at this thing full time. So I took a pay cut and did that. Unfortunately for me, that was five and a half years ago.
In any case, our communication with the B.C. government, as I said earlier in response to the other questions, hasn't been that great, because of the timelines. We'd really like it to slow down. I think they're trying. They're giving us the documents and allowing us time to comment; sometimes we might have three or four hours.
As for the duty levels, yes, right now we're at 10%, and it's 15% if you go over quota. The price index was supposed to be published today--the mid-week thing--but it wasn't, because of the U.S. holiday, so I guess it comes out tomorrow. The trend has been heading down.
Our preference, as I think I indicated earlier, would have been what we thought was going to happen--that is, the government was going to provide an aid package to see us through. Our guys have been beaten up worse than anybody on this ad valorem thing, and yet they are still willing to see it through if they can get a little bit of help and get this legal thing taken care of.
We certainly would like to have seen what Mr. Feldman described occur, and we're very concerned about letting the United States establish the ability to use transaction pricing in their future anti-dumping cases, because we think that the other $2.1 billion could vanish pretty quickly. If we can get at the NAFTA decision and take out that appeal at the WTO--I'm sure Mr. Feldman knows far more about it than I do--that would have been our preference, for sure, and still is.