Mr. Speaker, he is the minister who stood up and said we should negotiate after we in fact won the decision.
The fact is the softwood lumber industry has carried the burden of this dispute with only lip service and token support from the government. The industry, which is paying billions of dollars in duties and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, has very reasonably proposed EDC backing in the interim for the return of its cash deposits.
When will the government cover the legal fees of this dispute and extend the loan guarantees to the industry until the dispute is resolved?