Thank you, Chair, and thank you to both of our guests today.
Mr. Milne, I will start off with a comment. I understand the challenges that we have in today's environment for fibre supply. I have cattle producers and dairy producers who at one point not so long ago could back up a pickup and get the chips they needed for bedding and what have you, so the cattle producers and dairy producers in my region are crying foul as well. They would love to see timber supplies available so that they could get their chips back.
My question is to Mr. Nelson.
Mr. Nelson, you mentioned in your paper that between the two different types of combinations that we've seen in past agreements, whether it was a quota or an export tax, you believe that an export tax would probably provide for better market access.
More and more of our major producers now have operations on both sides of the border. Would an export tax not raise our lumber prices, thereby penalizing some of our smaller producers who do not have operations on the other side, and benefit our U.S. producers?