Thank you.
Maybe this would be also appropriately guided to you as it's on North American trade policy.
In our negotiations with the United States, they made claims about our stumpage rates being below market value. This is the justification for their countervailing duties and tariffs.
We have carbon taxes in Canada. We're talking about a clean fuel standard. It's quite clear that our government has more taxes on industry. Particularly, I was speaking to a sawmill owner in my riding. They have kilns, which they use to dry the lumber. Their trucks are burning a lot of diesel and gas to move these products. The cost of the carbon tax and the soon-to-be-announced clean fuel standard will represent yet another increase in the cost of their inputs.
Is this being used at the trade negotiation level to show the Americans that our cost of doing business is higher because of taxes? Is this bearing at all on the negotiations?