Mr. Speaker, it does not take much to make the minister happy. He needs to be more aware of what is happening in his riding.
The forestry industry is short of cash and facing a serious crisis. One solution to the industry's problems is loan guarantees. The Government of Quebec, the unions, the Quebec Forest Industry Council and the federal government's own lawyers agree that loan guarantees are legal. If they are not legal, then the government needs to tell us why Ottawa's lawyers are arguing that they are.
Is the government paying lawyers who are contradicting the ministers, or do the ministers not understand their own lawyers? We want to know.