Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Brodrick, following up on your comments around the trade associations that have come forward, Alberta certainly is not alone. There's Saskatchewan; we've had the Ontario associations, and most of B.C. Very clearly, the trade associations have stated that they have huge concerns with these badly flawed negotiations.
I wanted to pick up on a couple of points to finish off.
Mr. Milton, you mentioned the irony of this government's refusing any loan guarantees to the softwood industry, yet it's willing to have taxpayers cough up an advance--basically coughing up a second time through EDC--to provide a certain amount of money back to the companies. I would like you to comment on the proceeds of trade crime, the billion dollars that's going to the United States--Canadian money--which we all know is illegal. At every stage in the courts, it very clearly has been seen to be illegal.
By rewarding the American industry for this trade crime, basically tapping them on the head and saying, yes, here's a billion bucks for your troubles for committing that crime, do you think it increases the probability of a lumber war? Does it basically increase the war chest that this industry will have to come back at us with?