She was here on the boreal forest. All I ask is that when we discuss the boreal forest, which is so critical to the future of the forestry industry in all of Canada, I think, everyone will agree it's not just trees. Some 30% of the boreal forest is made up of the wetlands, the creeks, the rivers, the streams, the ecology centres, and the fishing and spawning grounds. That's all included when we talk about the boreal forest, and we should never lose sight of the fact that that is part of the boreal forest. It's not just trees. A lot of people out there who are not conversant with the forestry industry don't realize that. So I'd like put that on the record.
I don't want to get into an argument with my colleague over here from Sault Ste. Marie, but you can't be a plagiarist in this meeting. Mr. Allan, from the Council of Forest Industries--and I'm sure Diana is going to agree with this--said that when we do pass the motion that was presented a week or two ago, that whatever comes of the round table of experts in the forestry business in Canada, there may be three solutions. We can't look at forestry in all of Canada in one spectrum. There may be solutions that involve British Columbia and Alberta, which would be different from the solutions that would involve Ontario and Quebec.
Diana, I'm sure you agree--different solutions in eastern Canada.
So we may have three areas of coming up with recommendations that we're going to ask this committee to study with respect to the different areas in forestry in Canada. I think that's absolutely critical, because what happened in the softwood lumber deal is nobody wanted to acknowledge that there were three fundamentally different industries in Canada and we spent too much time in that area. So let's not waste this next venture into the forestry industry in that area.
And then Mr. Roberts went into great lengths about the future of the forestry industry and where we sit on global markets. He talked about what has happened to the newsprint industry in Canada and how we are no longer competitive in that area and perhaps it's time that we looked at areas other than newsprint. He wanted to spend a lot of time to find out if the kraft industry can still be resuscitated and whatever we can do to enhance the kraft industry before we lose all of our markets to Southeast Asia, China, and India.
I asked him outside, Mr. Chairman, if he would be willing to.... As you know, we have a suggestion or a motion before the committee. After we hear our evidence--hopefully everybody will agree to this motion whenever it is put--we want to have a round table or a summit on the forestry industry in Canada. We want to bring our very best people together, which does not necessarily mean politicians, and find out just what we should be doing with respect to the future of the forestry industry.
If that's okay, those are the three recommendations I'd like to leave on the table. I don't think anybody would have any dispute with those. Am I correct in that assumption?