Mr. Speaker, I understand my colleague, who represents a region with a strong forestry industry. I, too, represent a region in this Parliament where there is a forestry industry.
We have seen the Harper regime's approach. As the member rightly said, the Conservatives at the time gave $1 billion to the Americans. After winning in all the courts, we were nearly at the victory line, but the Conservatives gave it all away. Not only that, we also lost 100,000 jobs and 200 lumber mills across the country. It was a total disaster. The leader of the official opposition says it was a victory. It was not a victory at all.
I wanted to get my colleague's opinion on this. Does he agree that it was a real disaster that we lost 100,000 jobs, 200 softwood lumber mills and $1 billion?