Mr. Chair, I certainly would love to see this resolved under the new version of CUSMA.
The fundamental problem, as I mentioned before, is that at the moment the United States administration does not believe it needs our lumber. The President said so back in September. He said, “We don't need their lumber, because we have our own forests.” The United States is wrong. It does need our lumber.
Once it starts to realize that, once that percolates into the American economy, the U.S. administration will be able to sit down with us in good faith, and we will be able to negotiate a deal that is good for Canada. We have to be in a good negotiating position in order to make a deal that is good for Canada, and the United States has to make sure the deal is good for them as well. A good business deal is good for both parties.