Thank you, Chair.
Thank you all for your presentations.
It's difficult for us to ask questions in this limited amount of time with all the experts in the field that we have at the table here. I want to start with Mr. DeMarco on the structure of the audits around the planting of the trees, looking at how far we go into the partners who are at the table and possibly looking for some root causes as to the delays in some of the implementations you noted in your report.
I'm looking in particular at Ontario, where my riding is and where the Ontario government cancelled a program for planting trees. They cancelled $4.7 million to Forests Ontario, which had an associated 50 million trees attached to that program. That was done in 2019. Then, in 2022, the federal government came to the table with $12.7 million for Forests Ontario to plant 7.2 million trees.
The partner, Forests Ontario, would be an interesting one to talk to. Is that somebody you would normally talk to in the course of your audit, or would you look at the externalities that are causing delays and what the root causes are?