Mr. Speaker, I said that the agreement with Quebec and its $1-billion infrastructure funding was a good thing.
I certainly will not stand in the way of housing construction. It is the government's ineptitude that is killing one of the economic sectors that is essential to housing construction: softwood lumber. The federal government is literally allowing this sector in Quebec to die. There has been no negotiation to resolve the tariff crisis that is affecting the softwood lumber sector. I am not hearing anyone across the way express concern for forestry workers or their plight. Sawmills might eventually get a retooling program, but they are all in the process of closing down.
I am not the one slowing down housing construction in Canada. The government's inaction is to blame.