Thank you.
Of course, there is the expanding market opportunities program, whose objective is to develop international markets for Canadian forest products and to promote the increased use of wood in the construction of mid-rise and non-residential buildings in North America.
However, the 2019 evaluation of this program indicated that it was serving western producers, particularly in British Columbia, much better than eastern producers in Ontario and Quebec. In 2020, about three-quarters of the program's funding went to organizations in British Columbia. That's what we have noticed.
How could this program be improved so that it also benefits eastern producers in a more equitable way?