Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses.
I appreciate the preamble to the discussion to date. I just wanted to remind the committee that the United States is going to continue to be our number one trading partner and we will continue to work closely together reducing red tape and harmonizing regulations, working and streamlining the border with regulatory reform with the CBSA and the Department of Homeland Security.
I was just in Washington last week with the chair of the trade committee and we were working with other sectors as well and discussing the importance of the forest industry. Coming from British Columbia as do Mr. Sandhu and my colleague Mr. Hiebert, we know it's about 3% of our provincial GDP, about 170,000 jobs. It's a big economic employer and stimulus for our province and other parts of Canada.
Ms. Cobden, in your opening comments you mentioned that by 2020 you want to have a $20 billion increase. Right now there is about $1 billion in wood, pulp, and paper products going to the EU.
With CETA, have you been able to do any preliminary estimates indicating how much of an increase you might anticipate from this to help accomplish your goal of $20 billion by 2020 and what percentage of increase of growth that would be?