Thank you, Chair, and thank you all for being here today to take our questions on this important topic.
I guess I'll pick up on something that was mentioned a few different times, and that's the priorities of the government. As I understand it, going into the CUSMA negotiations, the government set out five priorities, and if I recall correctly, softwood lumber was not a priority among them.
Also, after the last election, at the beginning of this Parliament, again if I recall correctly, I believe none of the mandate letters of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Natural Resources or the Minister of International Trade actually mentioned softwood lumber and this dispute.
I put that out there because there was a sort of indication and a feeling in 2017 that we were getting close to a deal. I suppose the crux of the question is to know what happened and whether you feel there has been a shift in priorities by this government away from softwood lumber.