Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for correcting the record. The facts of the matter of the last softwood deal were that the Liberals did not get it done in 2005. We became government in January 2006, and we got the softwood deal in September. Out of that deal the Americans then had to give $5 billion back to Canadian companies. We then negotiated a seven-year contract, and the hon. member is right that the contract ran out in 2015. There was an extension period there. It ran out in the midst of the election, but we also had a one-year extension where no duties and no countervail would be brought against our companies during that time. That then gave whichever government won the election time to finish the deal.
We heard the Liberals say, “We can do a better deal than they can. This will be easy. We know President Obama. We will have a great deal.” However, they did not get it done.
Would the member also make some comments as to that, how the $5 billion came from America back to the Canadian companies in 2006?