Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to thank all of you for being here, and welcome you, as the chair has done.
Just to reinforce it, I'd like to welcome you in particular. In another life as a municipal politician in Toronto, I spent a lot of time in northern Ontario in the vicinity of Kapuskasing, specifically the Adams Mine, and visited Englehart, and talked about taking our waste stream, in particular waste wood, and trying to supply the pressed wood company and the framing company in Englehart with wood supply, which would be good for urban people to do that.
I'd just share that with you. I'm always quick to talk with a reeve, not having been a reeve, but my dad was for a long time, and I think it's a great institution, so keep up the good work.
I have a couple of questions.
Mr. Gray, you talked about the social contract, and the basis of the social contract—there was another social contract in the history of Ontario, but we'll keep away from that—to keep mills in communities where wood supply is the product. That seems to me a philosophy that in the short term we haven't been able to keep. Our challenge is in the short term right now, how to go through this restructuring and so on.
Could you expand a little? One of the devices that you used was the Forest Stewardship Council and using the FSC preference in procurement at different levels of government. Could you just expand a little on that? We are looking at some short-term solutions from a committee perspective.
Also, I think, Jeff, you talked about a pilot project to offset losses due to restructuring. Again, this is a short-term adjustment. I wonder, in that pilot project, if you could just expand on how this committee could make some recommendations.
From an academic perspective, how quickly, for example, in bio-refining, can you get from the concept of bio-refining to commercialization? It seems to me that that's an area that, in the short term, if we could accelerate that, we could add some high value to an industry that in many communities is waning.
I guess my final question is to Ms. Blenkhorn. You had said that there were recommendations that had been made, but you didn't go into those recommendations at the end of your presentation. Could we get a copy of that, or could you just give us a quick summary of what they were?
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.