Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to start by paying tribute to Serge Bouchard, whose death we have just learned about. In the context of this study on the green economic recovery, we had in him an inspiring model precisely for the way we can live together with the planet, with Indigenous peoples, with our origins and with our roots. As an anthropologist, his legacy to us was a whole story, our story. I believe that it is incumbent on us to assume the responsibility of living his message. I am grieving deeply this morning and I wanted to share it with the members of the committee.
My question is for Mr. Samray from the Quebec Forest Industry Council.
You have talked about the bioeconomy, which uses resources from sources such as agriculture, forestry, biomass and organic waste.
In your opinion, do the best solutions in supporting a focus on bioeconomy in Canada lie in increasing the budgets for basic research and developing a value chain for secondary and tertiary processing of forestry resources?
Parallel to that, what do you think of the Investments in Forest Industry Transformation program, the IFIT you have talked so much about? Which aspects of the program can be improved?