Thank you very much, each one of you, for coming this morning. We appreciate your testimony.
I come from a riding that has a significant forestry industry--or had a significant forestry industry. Unfortunately, over the last number of months, we've seen a number of mills mothballed, with the hope of someday re-opening. We are all looking for that light at the end of the tunnel. We hope the Americans start building. We hope Canadians continue to build, and in some cases start building again as well, so that our industry will start up again.
Obviously, we have the things that make for a long-term, profitable, solid business. We have access to trees. We have access to all the things that make us leaders in this industry. We also have mills that are high-tech and certainly ready to go. We'll give any mill in the rest of the world a run for its money when it comes to efficiency. We have mills that have pretty much taken advantage of every opportunity in terms of utilizing every bit of waste. They are super-efficient. Some of our surviving mills have been credited as being the most efficient in our country and are actually the most efficient in the world. That is the only reason for their survival.
The question that keeps being brought up, even in my community, where we have such a dependency on the forestry sector, is this. Sure, the government can come in, even if it were just able to hand money out, but what is the purpose, at this point, of creating wood that drives down the cost of the product? Certainly we could open the mills that have closed down if we threw a bunch of money at them. But what's going to happen, at least in my community, is that the mills that are surviving are going to be shut down. How do we differentiate?
Mr. Lazar, you know the industry across the country. In terms of our capacity right now, have we reached a point at which we're able to move forward with current capacity, or do we have to limit capacity additionally? I'm just talking purely from the perspective of product on the market. Are we still in a situation where we're flooding the market?