Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to welcome you to the committee and thank you for being here.
My question is for Mr. Lazar. You provided recommendations for the forest industry, in general, for the future. You talked about one of the worst crises that we have just gone through. We can talk about the current financial crisis, which we have been going through for a year now and which is very serious, but the forest industry has been going through a crisis for several years, three or four, at least. Guy Chevrette, the president and chief executive officer of the Québec Forest Industry Council has been making requests for two years now, and the Bloc Québécois has called upon the federal government to give the same level of support to the forest industry as it did the auto industry, namely through loan guarantees.
Do you think that if the federal government had done what was being asked, if it had paid as much attention to the forest industry, we would not be having as hard of a time today?