Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you also to the minister and her officials for being here this afternoon.
When we looked at the forestry industry last spring, small companies told us that they were facing a very important problem of access to credit. In other words, small and medium-sized companies cannot get any credit at all or find it is very difficult to get.
Are you considering setting up a program of loan guarantees especially for small and medium-sized businesses in the forestry industry?