Mr. Chair, I want to extend a special thanks to my colleague because of his work on the biomass ITC, which he was instrumental in helping bring forward.
I want to offer a comment that I hope the member will respond to on the trade negotiations with the United States and the psychology of the U.S. President, about which I will be modest in my comments. He is a deal maker, and he does come from a deals-beget-deals environment. Given his interest in some of the other sectors, I wonder if my colleague would respond to the notion that perhaps by starting with the things that Donald Trump is most interested in discussing, we could build momentum toward a softwood lumber deal.
Before I hand it over, I want to say that we will fight every day for the forestry sector.
