Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Minister, for appearing before us.
You probably know there's a subcommittee that's been struck to look at some of the challenging issues and what Mr. Vincent was talking about, the forestry. One of the things that drives me absolutely crazy is to view an industry like the forestry industry. When everything's said and done, we're going to have our trees and we're going to have our minerals and we're going to have our vast resources. It always perplexes me when I see that we missed the boat years ago in not becoming a world leader in the forestry industry. When we talk to the forestry people, we ask them where they get their technology from. Well, it's from Finland.
Now, we've had some success stories as well, and one of the success stories we've embarked upon is the aerospace industry. I know we've made substantial investment there. I wonder if you could expand on that, tell this committee where we're going, what we can expect in the future and how we can continue to grow that industry, which has proven to be such a valuable and important part of Canadian industry.