Mr. Speaker, the government would have the softwood lumber industry believe that we are in the calm before the storm when in fact the storm is right now. In four months every truckload of lumber exported to the U.S. today could be charged back countervail and anti-dumping charges retroactively to last Monday.
Four months of potential charge backs would cripple and close sawmills right across the country. What is the government doing to alert these sawmills of this danger? What is the government doing to help mitigate the damages?