One of the most important programs that they've had so far is a program called investments in forest industry transformation. It was a grant program to support transformative investments in the forest industry, and Structurlam was one of their recipients. They received money to expand their production of cross-laminated timber, which is a mass timber-engineered wood product that enables us to build taller with wood. There's an architecture firm in Chicago that has designed a 42-storey, wood/concrete hybrid building. UBC is putting up an 18-storey building that is all wood. It's this CLT product. That program has also supported lignin extraction, which is the glue in the tree. Take it out and we can produce glues from it, we can produce chemicals that can be used in mining and oil and gas applications. There are a whole host of technologies that could be supported that way. Government has also been supporting R and D, whether it be in the academic community, through FPInnovations, or collaboratively with both of those and the companies, and all of that is very important.
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