Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
First I'll make a few brief comments. Yes, we went to the United States to meet with elected representatives, and they had just been made aware of the black liquor situation not long before that. We hadn't either, but the fact remains that they had not been aware of it for long. Those who seem to be the most aware of it were those who had businesses of this kind in their regions. That tells you everything about the direction that will be taken at the end of the year.
There's something here that I find quite surprising and even abnormal, at times disarming, and it's when there are two different treatments for businesses that do business with the United States. In the case of loan guarantees, we have a lot of trouble accepting that. Based on the standards, it's acceptable; it's legal. When it was done for other industries—I'll only name the automotive industry—there was no problem.
The barely veiled criticisms of the Canadian government I can accept. I'm convinced that we could make a number of others.
I would like to go back to the remarks by Mr. Weir, who, to all intents and purposes, referred to social and environmental dumping. Among the solutions, you mentioned implementing a mechanism to avoid a race to the bottom. You're definitely not just talking about the United States, but about a number of other countries. In the United States, do you think we can say that, in social and wage terms, there is a significant race to the bottom?