Interesting that McKenna chose to quote David Emerson, Harper’s International Trade Minister, who negotiated the previous softwood lumber agreement in 2016. Our Foreign Affairs Minister, Chrystia Freeland, who had the International Trade post for more than a year, but failed to negotiate a renewal agreement with the Obama administration, was apparently unavailable for comment. So was her successor, François-Philippe Champagne. It only took Emerson a few months to negotiate an agreement with his American counterpart. Now we are almost a year and a half into the Trudeau government and we don’t even seem to be close to a renewal agreement.