Mr. Speaker, with all due respect to the hon. member, it is fine to stand in this House and suggest that if the Liberals had had one more month, they would have brought together an agreement that was, in the member's words, superior to the one we brought forward.
This may sound repetitive, and I am sure members have heard it in this House before, but they had 13 years to bring forward an agreement.
The softwood lumber dispute had gone on for 20 years. This new government brought it to an end. This new government recognized that we were not getting anywhere with litigation. The industries were suffering. The communities were suffering. Litigation was not of benefit to either the workers in the industry or Canadian industries themselves. We put that to bed. We brought together a softwood lumber agreement that is working.