Thank you so much to the honourable member for that important question.
All the way along, our government has been absolutely steadfast at standing up for the softwood lumber industry. It is a positive result that we have seen where consistently it's been reaffirmed that Canada is trade compliant. We will need to continue to vigorously defend the industry, but at the same time, we also want to create the right conditions to support, to invest and to attract investment to this important sector and many of the new small and medium-sized businesses that absolutely are being created.
Through the trade commissioner service, we're working with business certainly in British Columbia and across the country, where they're finding markets to export into. We are finding some really promising opportunities in countries where we already have trade agreements, like in Japan or in Vietnam through the CPTPP, in Germany though CETA, as well as South Korea, where we have a bilateral agreement with that country for our extraordinary wood products, for our innovative forestry products.
We're going to continue doing that work in investing in our Canadian businesses so that we can help them diversify and help them grow, anchored with jobs in Canada so that we can have that continued vibrant forestry sector, while at the same time, defending them through the other channels, whether it be through the dispute settlement mechanisms or at the WTO.