I don't have the exact numbers in front of me either, but in general, in terms of our exports, I think they've held reasonably steady. Of course, the value of those exports has shot up quite a bit, given the price of lumber. In the past six months we've had the highest-ever recorded value of Canadian exports of softwood lumber products to the United States. As was mentioned before, mills are working flat out to make as much lumber as possible and ship it to customers both here in Canada and in the U.S.
That's why I would say that certainly the value of those exports is quite high, and I think the overall amount is also consistent.
A question previously had asked about production in Canada and production in the U.S. Of course, production also depends on availability of the raw material, the trees themselves. As the honourable members who are from B.C. might know, with the pine beetle epidemic and forest fires, the availability of trees in British Columbia has declined over the past few years—at least, the harvestable trees.
While B.C.'s production is impacted by that fundamental reason, we've seen production in the U.S. south increase simply because they have many more trees available for harvesting. That's why you're also seeing some Canadian investment in that region as companies seek to ensure that they can keep their production numbers up by investing where the resource is available at the current time.