Thank you.
Just for clarification on the independent arbitrator who's outside the dispute.... I have a constituent who has a small flooring company, and he's being charged 20.24% duty by the Americans under the softwood deal. He's very upset, because he gets most of his wood privately on the open market, often from non-stumpage-based logging, and he also buys from a lot of small, single-man mill operators and pays much higher prices for the raw wood. And he's being charged on the finished product--it's milled, it's mitred, it's formed.
So would it be best for him to go through the arbitration process, or is there some other means to get resolution to this? Because he's having to pass the costs on to his American customers.
Who pays the cost, and is that under the budget? And if the dispute mechanism is cumbersome and doesn't seem to work.... Are we funding it to $2.991 million, or is that billion? I'm not quite sure what the numbers mean.