Mr. Speaker, tell every forestry worker who has been laid off in the last few years that chapter 11 of NAFTA is doing a marvellous job for them. Tell them that. Tell them it has certainly empowered the Canadian government and all the lumber companies.
Guess what? About $1 billion of Canadian money was left. Even though we won, so what? We gave up that right. It does not matter whether we win or not because we have a government that will actually reward the bullies who are completely ignoring trade agreements, even though we win.
Yet, over and over again, and we just saw the softwood lumber sellout, we said we will back-off and we left $1 billion on the table. Think of what $1 billion could do for those hard-working families in northern Ontario and Quebec who are losing their jobs because of this softwood sellout.