Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to our witnesses for being here.
I represent a riding in the Okanagan in beautiful British Columbia, Kelowna—Lake Country, and our provincial counterpart is the Minister of Forests. He had an opportunity to go with our federal minister to Japan and China for the Canada wood export program, and it was very encouraging.
The associate dean of Okanagan College in my riding, Doug MacLeod, wrote a paper on the use of wood and the importance of emerging markets using wood and wood foundations for an environmental purpose, because of the immense reduction in greenhouse gases as a result compared to the use of concrete. I don't know if you guys and gals in the department have looked at that and reviewed that perspective, but I think it's another way that Canada can use....
It's great to see the lumber experts have doubled every year over the past five years, and 120% over the last nine months. I think it's the part that Canada is playing to help reduce greenhouse gases globally. Have you examined that perspective at all?