If I may, Madam Chair, perhaps I can answer that question.
I think the honourable member is very correct. The duties on Canadian softwood lumber are a tax on the American middle class, and perhaps even the lower class. The National Association of Home Builders, with whom we stay in very close contact, has highlighted several times that the cost of single-family homes and low-cost housing has increased substantially. I can't remember the exact number, but it's in the tens of thousands of dollars, and perhaps higher than what the honourable member mentioned from several years ago. There is a significant impact.
A number of U.S. senators and congresspeople I believe wrote to the administration highlighting this fact and the harm that the duties are doing to middle- and lower-class purchases in the United States. I think it's a very important issue. It's something that we highlight as part of our advocacy efforts at all times.
Thank you very much.