Mr. Speaker, the Minister of International Trade claimed the softwood lumber agreement was “far better than litigation”.
The U.S. has criticized our domestic softwood lumber policies. We have had one consultation meeting and it is clearly apparent that we are going to arbitration, in other words, back to court.
The government sold out our softwood lumber industry by leaving over $1 billion on the table, agreeing to a restrictive quota system and abandoning our past NAFTA and WTO litigation victories.
When will the minister acknowledge he signed a flawed deal and it sold us out to the U.S.?