Thank you very much, Mr. Lessard, director general of the Québec Federation of Forestry Cooperatives.
With him today is Brigitte Gagné, executive director, Conseil canadien de la coopération. Thank you for being here as well. You may answer some of the questions if they apply more to your area.
We have until 5 o'clock for questions. At that time, we have 15 minutes to deal with Madame Brunelle's motion, and then we have bells for votes at 5:15.
The committee members will direct questions to any one of you. If another one of you wants to answer, you can indicate so. Sometimes I will allow that, and sometimes not, depending on the amount of time the questioner has left, because the time allocated includes questions and answers.
There's one other thing. Mr. Weis, you mentioned you had just given the text of your presentation to the committee or sent it to the clerk of the committee. Also, Mr. Whittaker, you did the same. Both of those have been sent for translation. We have a rule at the committee that until the text of the remarks is in both official languages, we do not distribute it, just so you know.
Let's start with questions from the official opposition. Mr. Regan, you have up to seven minutes.