Madam Chair, everyone knows that I am a fair-minded person, and I am not going to bug my colleague, with whom I shared a lot of good times at the Standing Committee on Natural Resources. However, he talked about the Conservatives' 2006 softwood lumber agreement and said that we need to be firm. I would simply tell him that the people in the forestry sector think that the 2006 agreement was a bad deal. They lost $1 billion. The people in the forestry sector are now saying that they never want to have that kind of sellout agreement ever again.
What the people in the forestry sector want is for the government to be prepared to give them a liquidity program to help them weather the storm and for the U.S. to never again impose tariffs intended to wear the sector down into accepting a sellout agreement.
I would like my colleague to say whether he realizes that the deal signed in 2006 was a sellout agreement.