I don't agree with you entirely there. Yes, most of the subsidies go to the pulp sector because that is in line with the program in place in the U.S. With the softwood lumber agreement, we are always threatened by
trade actions.
It was very important to create a program that was in line with the one in the U.S. to protect us from further
softwood lumber aggression.
But the industry is more or less integrated.
If you're making paper you're buying it from a pulp producer. If you're making pulp you're buying it from a lumber producer. So even though the direct help was not distributed evenly and was distributed to reflect what was happening in the U.S., it affected the entire industry.
I remember just before meeting with the Minister of Trade at the Rideau Club I had a bunch of my COs together. Some of the lumber guys were starting to get quite aggressive, saying, “Why should the pulp guys get this? We should demand our own.” Then someone did the analysis, and it turned out that the entire industry agreed that this was the best we could get. If we had designed it simply in a vacuum as a green transformation, the details would have been different.