Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, thank you for our service to our great country.
Minister, your party made a promise to plant two billion trees. I and many others assumed these were in addition to the trees already being planted in Canada, yet in your economic statement, you now say you won't actually be doing this; instead, you will be actually paying others to do the planting.
Is your actual plan just to put the taxpayer on the hook for trees that were already going to be planted by industry?