Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for coming this morning.
I come from British Columbia, where my family worked in the forestry industry, so this is very close to my heart.
On November 15, 2011, we heard from a representative from the Forest Products Association of Canada. At that time he said, “ Right now the government procurement process for forest products in the EU is a fairly behind-closed-doors process”—it may have been Mr. Casey at that time—and “We're advocating something that is a little bit more open and that taps into leveraging our environmental pedigree.”
Would the CETA agreement address the forest sector's concern regarding this particular issue?