Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to both of you for coming.
It's a very important and interesting topic, especially as we're dealing with crises, but I'm wondering about this as I look over some of the data we've received about the amount of money that governments are spending on this.
It really seems to be crisis management all the time, rather than some type of an ongoing process in which governments interact with the forest in a managed fashion so that we could manage all of these pests continually forever, but then I wonder if we would be going the wrong way again and going too far, perhaps not with the invasive species side, but certainly with the spruce budworm.
Dr. MacLean, should we be managing these pests in the way we're managing them? Or should we say, well, we've identified that it's coming in here, so why don't we clear this stand in a fashion and extract the economic value we can from this stand before the pest moves in, and then just manage it as an economic loss, rather than always trying to maximize the future value of something that nature won't let us do?