Thank you.
Professor Bull, I want to follow through on something you mentioned earlier during your presentation, about our forests being attacked by such things as pine beetles and stuff like that. I don't know if you referred to pine beetles, but you did say beetles.
Living in B.C. for many years and now living in Alberta, I've seen the pine beetle effects in British Columbia and am now seeing them through Jasper National Park and coming into the western slopes of Alberta.
Now, from some reading I was doing through Canadian forest service publications, I've learned that we're basically taking the forests that were a small net carbon sink and turning them into a large net carbon source. I understand that some of the impacts in one year alone from B.C. are equivalent to the amount of forest fire situations we had over a 20- or 30-year period in carbon and stuff like that.
I wonder if you could just elaborate on that a little, and tell me what we could do as a government or what we could do to try to improve that.