Madam Speaker, the Minister for International Trade is in Spain today otherwise he would have led the debate on our side.
There undoubtedly will be jobs losses, and the Minister for International Trade knows that as well as my hon. colleague.
As my colleague knows, one of our problems in terms of Asia--Pacific is that we should have developed markets in that area long ago. Somebody told me the other day that Shanghai needed a million board feet of softwood lumber for its exploding housing industry. We should be developing that market. We have put in money into developing that market and I hope we put a lot more into that market and other markets in Asia--Pacific.
As the member knows very well, once we get to 30% of the American market this happens repeatedly. I would request that when those on the other side stand up to speak they should tell us whether they want us to impose an export tax to recoup some money so we can help communities, or do they not want us to go that route.