Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate my colleague for his work on this matter. Long before his region was affected as it was in December, he was very active not only within the Bloc Québécois caucus, but also in the House to alert us to this issue. He tabled a petition with more than 2,500 signatures from people in the Huntingdon area calling on the federal government to intervene quickly. He did this several weeks before the Huntingdon tragedy.
I want him to say a few words about what the industry had to do to try to avoid the closures it unfortunately had to go through with because of the Liberal government's inaction.