Madam Speaker, over the last few years I have travelled with the hon. member to Washington. We are doing everything we can to straighten this issue out and get the money back.
First of all, we visited the congressmen and senators of the United States in order to talk to the industry people down there. We have also gone through the WTO and NAFTA panels because that is the way one has to go through the system. We are not going to stop there. We are also being allowed to retaliate by the WTO. Right now, before we do that, we are going to talk to the industries in this country that could be affected. We must be very careful with everything we do. It could have repercussions on other industries in this country.
We have the power to retaliate and take measures, but we are going to talk to industries across the country that are going to be affected. We are still watching that $3 billion U.S. and we are going to go after every dollar that is owed to our softwood lumber producers.