Thank you.
It bothers me, Mr. Chairman—I happen to live in an area that is drastically affected by the problems faced by the forestry industry—that this committee is sitting around listening to all of the evidence without having the will to say there's something that has to be done immediately about this particular industry, the second largest industry in Canada. The industry has some serious flaws that have to be corrected.
We've waited I think two weeks since it was brought up to this committee. We're wasting time. It's an industry. Every one of us in this room has people who are looking for jobs, who are laid off, and at other companies being laid off, and we're not doing anything of a positive nature to correct this as a government.
This round table or symposium that we're proposing is something that would get people to act immediately. I think we're wasting time deciding whether we should do it or not do it. We should be spending our time talking about what the rules of engagement would be, spending time talking about what the committee's mandate should be, and spending time talking about who should be on the committee from among the most important experts in our country who know a great deal about forestry and about the future of forestry, rather than members of Parliament who have a general knowledge.
All we know, Mr. Chairman, is the problems that we face, as we heard a little while ago, about transportation. We should be spending our time deciding who should be on that committee and what its mandate should be, rather than whether we should have the committee.
So I'm urging my colleagues here to move on it, and now it's up to you folks. But...Jesus!