Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from British Columbia for his question.
It allows me to remind the House of two extremely important facts for the debate today. I want to tell him that the penalties imposed on Quebec and Canada are the reason why extreme caution is to be applied in choosing the measures to put in place so as not to penalize the forestry industry even further.
The second fact is the position of the NDP member, who refused to agree to the return of $5 billion to the forestry industry. I was listening earlier today to a Bloc member who said that, without the softwood agreement put in place by the Conservatives, the whole industry would be dead by now. We support the forestry industry. We supported it in the first month after we came to power, in 2006, and we will continue to support it.