Madam Chair, it is our hope and it is our expectation that continued litigation under the WTO, the NAFTA, and the CUSMA will bring the United States back to the negotiating table in good faith. This has been a strategy that Canada has used successfully in previous lumber disputes, and we believe it will be successful this time as well.
With regard to the administration, all I can say is that lumber disputes between Canada and the United States have occurred during both Republican and Democratic administrations. We are hopeful that we can have some victories in the litigation, and also that our strong advocacy in the United States, especially with regard to the increase in prices for U.S. consumers and the tax that these duties put on U.S. home purchasers, will bring the U.S. back to the negotiating table.