Mr. Speaker, we have heard what Canadians think of this government's softwood lumber aid package. Quebec's natural resource minister said that it was a joke. The B.C. forest minister said that it was insufficient and inadequate. The paperworkers union said that it was little more than welfare for workers who this government has given up on.
The minister announced that this was simply a work in progress. Well this work has progressed once again into a disaster on this file.
When can we expect the government to come up with a decent aid package so that this forest industry has some chance of survival?