Thank you.
I'll be sharing my time with the honourable member from Mississauga-Erindale.
The reason we're having these hearings is that we as a committee sense a crisis, a need for urgency, and the need to develop a national strategy. We're looking for the federal government to show leadership, with passion. The initiatives that you've described in your presentation bother me a lot—you're aiming about a billion dollars in a relatively unknown direction. We don't even know if this money is going to go to forestry. I feel that you two, as deputy minister and assistant deputy minister, aren't being armed with the details to form a national strategy. We're thinking silos, when everybody is asking for a coordinated national strategy.
In this process, if it's Intergovernmental Affairs, if it's Finance, should you not be meeting eye to eye with your provincial counterparts, so that your strategies of competitiveness and innovation strategy could be coordinated rather than at cross-purposes?