Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to our guests for presenting at committee today.
I want to start off by asking Mr. Lebel some questions.
I would reiterate the comments of my colleagues here. I sure miss you in caucus and I miss sitting behind you in the benches and listening to your wisdom. I know you're always a team player. You emphasize the strength of the team and that we needed to be the team, and I'm sure you're carrying on that perspective in your current role as well.
As we look at team Canada when it comes to the forestry industry, I know you've addressed the whole topic of primary processing in most of your comments there. I'd like to look at some of the opportunities in the secondary processing, which is what the study is about. Whether our forest products are used in building or manufacturing furniture, or paper, or tissue, or cardboard, Mr. Lebel, where do you see opportunities that Canada is missing, where we don't have to ship our raw products outside of the country but for which we should perhaps be investing in opportunities locally to add value to those products right here in Canada?