Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am certainly going to start with the Southern Interior Beetle Action Coalition and focus on that area. For my colleagues from British Columbia, there is an incredible devastation of the woods when you fly over. If it's light today we will see the red that's gone to black. There has been a significant impact, and it is destroying some of our rural communities.
I'll ask some of my questions and then open it up. You mentioned $200 million. Could you first of all talk about the real successes, or what actually has made a difference, and how that $200 million has created a future? We had the community adjustment fund, and certainly, I know within the riding I live in, the work that was planned by the Beetle Action Coalition continued under that program. So I think over the last couple of years there was significant continuance of some of the work.
Could you also talk about what you see in the future, and how it's really going to make a difference? I'll open that up now for some real solid meat behind the issue.