Mr. Speaker, $400 million in sales, $700 million in payroll, $4 billion in processed products, $500 million in tax revenue, 29,000 jobs, 35,000 producers—this is the significant economic contribution made by Quebec's private lumber producers that is being threatened because the Conservatives have ignored the impact of the crisis on this sector in their trust.
These producers, who have lost $70 million over two years, are on the brink of bankruptcy and are desperate.
How will the trust help these producers, these owners, continue to harvest the forest when this trust completely ignores them?