Madam Chair, the reality is that the government cannot say it is standing with the forestry workers.
Our hon. colleague mentioned something very appropriate: When one job is lost, the multiplier is that three to five jobs are affected. In my riding, it does not impact just Quesnel or 100 Mile if a mill goes down. It impacts our whole region. It impacts the car dealerships. It impacts the food and grocery stores. It impacts real estate. It impacts schools. It impacts the tax base for those municipalities.
The government abandoned the $10 billion that was left at the border by our forestry producers. It is the producers' money that the government abandoned because of some great strategic chess move, checkers move, or whatever it was. The government thought it was going to outsmart the guy down south, but the tariffs have tripled. That $10 billion is still sitting there, lost.