Mr. Speaker, my colleague is correct in the amount of mill closures that have hit her riding, probably some of the worst that we have seen across the country. Yet when we hear the Conservatives speak this morning, they probably are grateful for the economic collapse. They are hiding behind it and using it as an excuse to cover off the deliberate mistakes they made in forestry policy in the last Parliament.
The Conservatives are now trying to present it as this is some kind of global problem, which they had no hand in. Yet when we debated the softwood lumber sellout, we saw how they gave up a billion dollars of our producers' money. Under clause 10 of the bill, they imposed on our industry a 15% export tax, which was higher than what the Americans were dinging us. Written into the bill were charges against companies that tried to do value added. Now we have lost markets and we have the Americans coming back at us. The government has crippled our industry.
What does my hon. colleague feel is the impact that the deliberate decisions of the Conservatives have had on the mills in her riding?