Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
One of the great challenges with negotiations with India you just touched on, Mr. Lindsay, and that's the federal level of negotiations, and then the state and city levels, is the overlapping and overlayering of the tariff and regulatory regime.
One of the great assets we have in the forest industry in Canada I think is often overlooked. It doesn't matter whether we're looking to export product or plastics or cellulose or pulp to India or the European Union, but for years we suffered a lot of pain in the forest industry to go through and verify our log and our timber stream, whether it came from Atlantic Canada or whether it came from western Canada.
We were very successful in doing that. We know the origin of all the logs. We did that deliberately in Atlantic Canada, because that way we avoided countervailing tariffs. That should bode well for us in increased timber exports to the European Union. They make a lot of noise about.... You used the words “green”, “clean”, and “renewable”. Part of that sustainability is proving that you have sustainable practices, and proving where that piece of two-by-four or pulp came from.
How important is that to future negotiations? Perhaps you could expand on that a little.