This is a transaction that could happen in what I think is a key sector, yet you say you haven't discussed it with your colleague.
When the auto industry was at risk due to the U.S. Build Back Better plan, you organized a mission to Washington. The government even sent letters threatening the U.S. with countermeasures, but nothing of the kind was done for softwood lumber.
Your mandate letter, which was published a month after the new wave of tariffs, makes no mention at all of the words “softwood lumber”. However, it does include the words “critical minerals” and even the word “coal”, if only to condemn its use. Why the double standard?