As someone who grew up in a forestry town and knows what it's like to be in a small town where the mill closes, I understand the challenges of the constituents in your riding. The reality is that we can't control what the Americans do. We have had free trade for almost all goods in this country since the 1980s. Unfortunately, with respect to forest products, we're in our fifth trade war with the Americans.
We have gone to the World Trade Organization, and we've used the adjudication routes through the different free trade agreements we've had. We have won every time, yet the Americans continue to foist upon us unjust, unfair and illegal tariffs.
What's the old saying? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. The reality of our situation, unfortunately, is the way the money politics work in the United States. The U.S. forest lobby is never going to give us free trade in forest products, so we need to retool our industry. That's why we launched the transformation task force and worked with all of industry to come up with a plan to pivot the industry. As I mentioned in my remarks, we got their report—