International Trade committee  Thank you for the question. As Mr. Fowler mentioned, Minister Ng has held a number of round table discussions with representatives of the Canadian softwood lumber sector over the past few years, most recently in March. I would say that the composition of those meetings is always intended to ensure that the broad range of interests from the Canadian forestry sector are represented as much as possible—without having an unwieldy number of people around the table—from companies, industry associations, indigenous partners and all of the major lumber-producing provinces in Canada.

International Trade committee  Thank you, Arun. I will share a few points. Some of the [Technical difficulty—Editor] government flowed from federal budget 2019, where $251 million in support was provided over three years to encourage innovation and growth in the forestry sector. It included a forest innovation program, an investments in forest industry transformation program, and an expanding market opportunities program, where officials from Global Affairs Canada and Natural Resources Canada worked together on some of those trade diversification opportunities that Arun mentioned.

International Trade committee  My apologies.

International Trade committee  Thank you, Arun. I apologize, Madam Chair. I missed the beginning of the question. Would the honourable member mind repeating the question quickly?

International Trade committee  First of all, I think as far as the softwood lumber dispute goes, the minister spoke to the three main initiatives that the government is undertaking to help resolve the dispute. We believe the duties are unwarranted and unfair. The minister mentioned our ambitious litigation strategy where we're challenging the U.S. duties at the World Trade Organization under NAFTA and under CUSMA as well.