Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I'm glad you mentioned that the mayors, the union, and the communities need our help, so we would really like to hear from these people.
Just a couple of months ago I had a mill operator come into my office in Sturgeon Falls. He was telling me a story about having to lay off his employees. This is a mill that was run first by his father and now by him. It's been running for decades and they've never laid off anybody. But now they've had to lay off their workers because of the black liquor subsidies that the American companies are getting. He had a whole slew of clients in Quebec, but because of the black liquor subsidies, they are now buying their lumber in Maine.
There are a lot of Goulard Lumbers in northern Ontario and in Canada. I'd like to know if your association represents them.