Madam Chair, I respect the member from Quebec, who is my former colleague on the natural resources committee. All I would say is that the industry originally wanted an agreement back in 2006. They wanted it in 2015 as well. Much of our industry, as the member well knows, and mills from my area, Mackenzie, are moving south. Good Canadian companies are moving their mills south of the border because of this lack of a softwood lumber agreement. It simply does not make financial sense for them to stay on the Canadian side of the border anymore.
We need a softwood lumber agreement to bring stability to the forestry sector, straight up. The forestry sector is attached to many people and homes, people who are not going to have Christmas dinner because their dad or mom lost their job at the mill. We need to care about those people, who have lost jobs because of the lack of a softwood lumber agreement. That is who we need to care about tonight and who the government should care about in getting that deal done.