Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you to the deputy minister and Mr. Farrell for attending today.
We're pleased to get started on the study of the forest sector because of the problems I know you're very well aware of.
Just before I get to my questions, I'd like you to clarify something in your statement, Ms. Doyle. You said that there were job losses of close to 30,000 in 2007. I was reading from the Library of Parliament brief that just over 27,000 jobs were lost from January 1, 2003, to October 5, 2007. Were those another 30,000 jobs lost in 2007, or was that a cumulative number?