Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for asking a question on an important economic driver for rural communities across Canada.
This government understands how important forestry is for job creation and economic growth and the protection of those forests. I am proud that economic action plan 2014 builds on the government's success by focusing on innovation, protecting forests from the threat of pests, and on diversifying markets for our forest products. We have increased softwood lumber exports to China tenfold.
These are successes that we should be applauding.