Mr. Speaker, that is a conspiracy theory put forward by suspicious and slighty paranoid individuals.
On the softwood lumber issue, if there is a government that has stood up for producers, it is ours.
The fact that we are making progress in Washington seems to bother certain members of the Bloc Quebecois who are not concerned about the real interests of lumber producers in Quebec, but would like to make political mileage on a sensitive issue. We have been working with all the provinces and industries across the country for the past two and a half years, and they will continue to be consulted as closely as they have been in the past.