Mr. Speaker, we have seen mill closures in Opasatika, Wawa, White River and Marathon. We are seeing mill closures across the country. Shame on the government for not coming forward.
One of the questions on this issue that was answered on the government side a while ago was about giving $172 million and the fact that the NDP is actually voting against the budget. We know the government is not going to deliver. It is putting stipulations in the budget. The fine print is what we have to look at.
In terms of the retrofit project that is supposed to stimulate the forestry industry, the retrofit project will not be approved until autumn. People should actually be doing their retrofits in the spring. I think that is a shame.
These are agreements that the government talks about. It says it is going to abide by these agreements. It cannot even get Xstrata or Inco to abide by the agreements already negotiated, or the softwood lumber--