Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here, gentlemen.
I would like to start off with two quick questions to Mr. Lazar. I believe it was Mr. Nantais who mentioned the aerospace industry, and I'm very close to that industry in Manitoba. One of the reasons for their success is very targeted programs like TPC, for instance, and the second thing they tell me was that the sector councils kept them very close to government and allowed them to actually develop strategies with government.
Is there a sector council in the forestry industry? That is my first question.
My second question is about what you said about the fact that we have natural resources the rest of the world wants, but I didn't hear you speak to adding value to those resources. I hate seeing round logs being shipped into the U.S.
Should part of our strategy or part of our recommendations here be that the government should support basically adding value to these natural resources, if you will?