Mr. Speaker, the member's argument is so full of holes it looks like a piece of cheese. He talked about the problem being that there is not a good relationship between the Prime Minister and the president. Let me quote the American ambassador, Mr. Cellucci, who said that reports of a rift between the Prime Minister and Mr. Bush are absolutely “not true”. Mr. Cellucci says:
The point ...about the President and the Prime Minister not getting along and not having a good relationship, it just isn't true. I've been in the meetings. I've talked with the President about the Prime Minister. I've seen them. The chemistry is very good...It's just not true this stuff that's out there.
There was a conscious decision to let the softwood lumber agreement run out and the member ought to know by now that there is a strong national consensus to proceed on the track on which we are proceeding.