Thank you, Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses for being here today.
My first questions will be for Catherine Cobden from the Forest Products Association of Canada.
As a member of Parliament from British Columbia, you can imagine how important the forest industry is to me and to my constituents. I just want to mention to you a question that I am frequently asked, namely why are we still exporting so many raw logs? Why have we not gone up to the higher value-added exports?
So I want to ask you, what is industry doing to raise the value of our exports? And are government programs such as IFIT and FIBRE helping in this regard?