Thank you, Mrs. DeBellefeuille.
Indeed, it may seem surprising to hear from a professor that research is doing well. Of course, more could be done, but the impression is and I will say this in English:
for many people in Canada it seems that the forest sector has no future.
It does have a future and it is already underway because the major granting agencies had the prescience or the shrewdness to fund several development initiatives for new products.
Before, a new product in the forest sector had a life of 50, 60, 100 years. Now, between the time when a product emerges and the time when it reaches market maturity, between 7 to 10 years elapse. We need to pursue this research effort.
To relaunch the forestry sector, there are already... In the area of smart paper, the SENTINEL network has developed all kinds of bioreactive papers. The problem lays with transferring this technology in order to create opportunities for wealth and employment.