Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Welcome to our witnesses. My first question is for the Forest Products Association. I'm going to take this from a slightly different angle. Your first testimony was interesting, but it was all on the manufacturing end. I want to go back to actually growing the product and looking after the product. I think that's something that's been particularly overlooked. You briefly mentioned the mountain pine beetle and the devastation it has caused in the British Columbian forest, and is now spreading through Western Canada.
Where are we on our research and our ability to control these epidemics? We've done it in agriculture for many years with more of an integrated pest management approach to insect outbreaks. Where is your association on that same approach in forestry?