I would like to add something. Bicycles were mentioned. My colleague is absolutely right: these companies are in trouble and they are spending large amounts of money — we are talking about $300,000 and $400,000 — to defend themselves against what they consider to be unfair competition, and they are winning on that point. They have proved that dumping was going on.
Take another example, the furniture industry, which has done the same sort of thing. The Canadian Trade Tribunal was asked to do something, but ultimately those companies gave up. I was in contact with the Quebec Furniture Manufacturers Association, for example, and they had spent between $300,000 and $400,000. Ultimately, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal sent them away and told them to do their homework because it did not find that the documents submitted met their requirements. When the people in the association saw that the Canadian International Trade Tribunal made recommendations in favour of the bicycle companies and that ultimately the government did not implement its recommendations, they backed off. But the companies in the furniture industry knew that they had other recourses, such as imposing safeguards in a situation where an industry is believed to be temporarily threatened in order to support it. You know that this is permitted by the WTO. It is not new, because there are countries that do it. At present, there are major job losses happening.
When you speak to the Quebec Furniture Manufacturers Association, those people say they don't believe in it. They spend huge amounts of money to protect their businesses, and the government does nothing.
There is a problem. Do you understand, Mr. Bains?