First of all, I want to thank the minister for being here with us today. I know he has a busy schedule. We appreciate your time.
Coming from an area in New Brunswick that's highly dependent on softwood lumber, and having grown up in a community where we survived the last softwood lumber crisis and seen the closure of two large sawmills in my area, which the community has never really recovered from, I will centre most of my questions on softwood lumber.
There's been the establishment of the softwood lumber task force, and I wonder if you could elaborate a little on the makeup and scope of the task force, as well as some of the deliverable objectives that you could see that task force accomplishing.