Your leaders have all appointed you to this committee, in effect.
Let's get on with the meeting.
We're dealing, of course, with a study of the unique opportunities and challenges facing the forest products industry. As I've said, in the first meetings we've had excellent witnesses. I am looking forward to the witnesses today.
We have as witnesses today, from the Council of Forest Industries, John Allan, president and CEO. From the Canadian Boreal Initiative, we have Mary Granskou, senior policy advisor. From CIBC World Markets, we have Don Roberts, managing director. Then we have, by video conference from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Réjean Gagnon, professor/researcher and director/coordinator of the Consortium de recherche sur la forêt boréale commerciale, Department of Basic Sciences.
Welcome, everyone.
We will have witnesses make their presentations in the order they are under the orders of the day, starting with John Allan, president and CEO of the Council of Forest Industries.