Mr. Chair, right now Donald Trump is actually claiming that Canadian forest products are a national security threat to the United States. It is absolutely absurd. In fact, British Columbia and Canada are now facing higher softwood lumber tariffs at 45% than Putin's Russia. Clearly, we need a more comprehensive, high-level negotiating framework, similar to what the European Union achieved.
Would my colleague not agree that we need this leverage to resolve the softwood lumber and other long-standing issues? Why is the government not pursuing this approach?