Thank you, Chair. It's a pleasure to be at your committee today.
We're talking about how the federal government can better support various industries. My question direction today will be about what governments do and what they don't do, what they fund and what they don't fund, and how that is impacting you.
I'm going to start with the British Columbia Council of Forest Industries.
In 2015, Chrystia Freeland said that within weeks we would have a softwood lumber contract. That never happened. We had the CUSMA negotiations and again, there was still no deal. Then we've seen multiple tariffs from the U.S. and basically protectionism happening.
How has all this lack of action on the part of the government impacted your industry?