Mr. Speaker, I thank the member from the Bloc. I clearly remember the discussions at the Standing Committee on Finance when I was chairman.
However, if we look at that report in terms of the apparel industry, the government responded almost verbatim to that report. In terms of the textile industry, the government responded even more aggressively than what was in that report. All of us on this side of the House will remember those conversations with the finance minister highlighting some of the particular challenges of some of the mills and some of these textile plants. I think that these textile plants must have known that the government was bringing in some kind of relief package.
At the end of the day, there are some plants that because of their unique positioning, their competitiveness, their cost structure, their access to markets or transportation, no matter what help they receive they may not survive. While we are very saddened by the loss of these mills, and I come back to point I made earlier, the government cannot solve every problem of every single plant in Quebec or indeed in Canada.