Thank you, Mr. Chair.
One of the first issues I dealt with when I joined the natural resources industry committee about 10 years ago was how do we target our science dollars? I suspect that I may get a few volunteers to answer this one.
When it comes to how we've dealt with forestry programs, are we doing it right in terms of the balance in basic versus applied research, the whole spectrum? I know we have engineers and pure scientists here, so we might have a little bit of a cultural difference in approach. But relative to how the government's been spending its science dollars aimed at forestry in the last few years, applied and basic, etc, in each of your opinions, of those who care to comment, do we have the right mix? If so, should we be putting more emphasis somewhere? Or what should we do?
I see one hand up to volunteer. After that, I suspect that I might get a couple of different opinions here.
Professor Mangin.