Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for coming. It's good to know that we have the right people at the table for our first meeting on this important topic.
With this conversation, I'm thinking back to when I was in high school. I had an opportunity to go to a national debating seminar in British Columbia. We were talking about sustainable development. That was our theme. We were talking about a forest pest. It must have been.... Was there another beetle that was on the go back in the 1980s, the Douglas something, maybe a Douglas fir beetle?