Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all of the officials for being here today.
We know the facts are that since October of 2015, when our last softwood lumber agreement expired, production in Canada decreased almost proportionate to increases of production in the United States. This is a real concern when you look at these trend lines, because mills have closed and we're losing jobs to the United States.
We heard today from officials and from the minister that they've been raising the issue with the U.S. and that they're open for discussion with the U.S., but I will go back to a question that my colleague Mr. Lewis was asking. To any of the officials who can answer this, by direction of the government, how many softwood lumber negotiating meetings have you had since 2015, since we haven't had a softwood lumber agreement?