Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'll be very brief. I do have a couple of questions, but just a point of clarification before I get into that, only because it was brought up by my colleague Monsieur Simard making a connection between auto and forestry, using words such as “ransom” and “currency”.
I would argue, respectfully, sir, that the auto industry in Canada and the United States and the success we've seen there with regard to trade deals is directly tied to the fact that they're identical. Manufacturing, supply chain, and even sales are identical. I think we know around this table that it isn't identical in forestry; it's a vastly different system.
Can you confirm that it is a big factor at play in some of these trade disputes?