Madam Speaker, I listened with interest to the member's speech. He talked about the idea of loans. He said that if the U.S. can break the rules of international, trade then why can we not break them?
If we were talking about a situation where the balance of trade or the trade surplus was very much in the American's favour or if we were talking about American goods coming into Canada, then we might have some options. However we are talking about softwood lumber going into the U.S. Therefore what we have to be concerned about is what measures the U.S. will take in response to whatever we do.
If we provide a form of subsidy, as he is suggesting through loans to industries to pay for this, we may even see a doubling of the countervail duty. Is that what he wants? I do not think it is.
I like his suggestion of research and development work in the industry and it is important to pursue that kind of thing. However let us not have simplistic approaches and simplistic, irresponsible answers to this important problem.