Mr. Speaker, the government has had since 1996 to fix the problem of the U.S. lumber lobby limiting Canadian access to the U.S. lumber market.
On March 21, in another 10 days, the U.S. department of commerce will announce duties on Canadian softwood lumber. Now at the 11th hour the Prime Minister is heading to Washington to try to broker some kind of a deal.
Will the Prime Minister assure Canadians that Canada will insist western red cedar specialty and value added products will be exempt from duties in our insistences?