Mr. Speaker, I have news for the foreign affairs minister. The committee meeting, which the hand-picked Parliamentary Secretary for the Prime Minister attended, was a closely watched committee meeting in this place by the stakeholders in the softwood dispute between Canada and the U.S. She could not have picked a worse moment. What an embarrassment and what a liability for Canada.
Canadian cash deposits in the softwood lumber dispute are nearing $5 billion and her reckless anti-American comments represent a major setback.