Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm Chris Norfolk from New Brunswick. I would add to the comments of my colleague from the Canadian Forest Service that the concerns of forest managers across the country are that forests may be in a stressed position when new and invasive alien pests come to our borders through various pathways. When they get here, the forests are already in a stressed position. We've seen it this year in New Brunswick, in relation to forest health issues that we believe may be influenced by weather patterns.
It's this resulting cumulative impact, not only of the direct environmental condition created by climate change through either extreme weather events or warmer weather, but also of the emergence of new pest pathways, that certainly will create challenges for integrated pest management in the future.