Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to come back to the question I asked of Minister Rickford concerning forestry.
In his speech, the minister talked about injecting $90.4 million over four years into the Investments in Forest Industry Transformation initiative. In fact, if we compare this amount with what was invested over the same period in the past, we are looking at a decrease of more than $30 million.
Why was the funding cut? How was the money used in the past? Was it fully utilized? How did it come about that this decision was made whereas investment in transformation seems to be a crucial element in successfully giving a helping hand to our forestry industry, which it needs to recover?