Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to all of our witnesses.
Ms. Cobden, you are well aware that, in a past life, I worked for a union in the forestry sector.There's been a real change in attitude as far as the industry goes, since I was involved four, five or six years ago, when things were much worse.
I found your presentation very informative, but I'd like to spend a bit of time discussing your third recommendation, which was to ask the federal government to redirect all undeployed capital from Sustainable Development Technology Canada's NextGen Biofuels Fund to a biorefinery fund. I'm interested in that recommendation because, in my riding, the industry seems to be moving towards pellets, and biomass.
Could you please elaborate on where things stand in that regard right now? Why couldn't the fund be used for torrefied pellets or biomass in general, and how might that eventually work?