Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The Canadian Forest Service has had a number of activities around climate change and greenhouse gases. For example, we have had a team of scientists who worked domestically and networked internationally to look at this question as to whether Canada's forests are in fact a sink of CO2. We work very, very closely with the provinces to get information around tree growth and forecasting growth over time. We also included forecasts around what we think the impacts of infestations might be--for example, the mountain pine beetle outbreak in western Canada and the spruce budworm in Ontario and Quebec over the next couple of years. We also did some forecasts of what the increase in forest fire risk might be.