Merci, monsieur le président.
Thank you all for being here and thank you to Mr. Liepert, and Mr. Aboultaif for their warm Alberta hospitality.
Mr. Merkowsky, thank you for reminding us of the de minimis threshold. At various times we get folks in here advocating on one side or the other of that issue. I think you gave us another potent reminder of the importance of that.
Mr. Gorman, I would like to thank you for speaking in French. Your French is very good, by the way.
I think you remind us, as well as Mr. Rabik, that there are important elements of economic potential in the Canadian economy in one set with tax instruments and others with a good dose of provincial and federal co-operation where we're able to help you make the kind of investments necessary to bring us into a renewable energy future. We also heard from COSIA in the last group that our resource industries are also high-tech industries and industries that deploy advance technologies on a daily basis.
I represent a riding that was literally founded on the forest industry and so, Mr. Rabik, I found your interventions very important.
Could you go a little further with respect to some of your observations around investments in biomass? I forget all of the terms that you used. I didn't make note of them all, but call them energy technologies, energy-saving technologies, or other kinds of technologies that rationalize and help advance your investment.