Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. To begin with, I would like to commend you for managing to put together an impressive list of witnesses for today's meeting. I also note your comments and the legal opinion that you received regarding the need to avoid addressing issues related to the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.
I also wish to convey my greetings to the workers and family members who are with us today to follow the Committee's work as it relates to the future of the forest industry, and particularly AbitibiBowater.
I would like to come back to Mr. Proulx's comments. At the beginning of the meeting, he talked about domino money, Monopoly money—some $1.5 billion. It is important to remember that--