Madam Chair, the member claims that this is a 40-year-long dispute, but he omits the fact that in the 10 years Conservatives were in power, we successfully negotiated an end to the softwood lumber tariffs. Furthermore, that was one time in 10 years, during which, by the way, the Americans actually paid back $4 billion of previously collected tariffs. By contrast, those tariffs came back in when the Liberal government took office. The Liberals have had three presidents and 10 years to reverse the defeat that happened under their watch. Not only have they not done it, but the tariffs went from their original 7% to 15%, and then when the Prime Minister took office, they went up to 45%. That shows how much worse things are today than when the Liberal government took office, particularly when the current Prime Minister took office while making grand promises that he was a three-dimensional chess player who could outwit the world and get us a deal.
I will tell the member what I would have done differently. I never would have dropped the legal challenges. I would have kept fighting to get our money back. I would have fought for every mill and logging town in this country. That is what I would have done differently.