Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Avrim and Catherine, for being here today.
Just a couple of things. Having been on the committee when the report was written a few years ago—and it seems like only a few years ago—one of the things we noted is that Minister Lunn did have a summit around the time the report was produced. A number of the forest industry executives, coordinated by FPAC, came to Ottawa to discuss and look at the long-term vision for that. So I'd suggest that there was at least a discussion, a summit, convened by the minister at that time. That was one thing that I think was very positive and led to a number of changes and government initiatives.
Another thing important to note is the billion dollars in the community adjustment fund, which is made for forest communities to help them transition to, in some cases, other forms of industry or value-added, or those types of things, but specifically associated with the pulp and paper green transformation fund. In my riding, AV Nackawic was a recipient of pulp and paper green transformation money. They've done a significant amount of work for environmental improvements at their operation there, their dissolving pulp operation. One comment they made to me was that our Canadian program was head and shoulders above the American program, which was only a subsidy, as opposed to the Canadian program, which was intended to improve environmental performance; otherwise, you didn't get the money.
Would you care to comment on that?