Thank you so much for coming today and for sharing your perspective with us.
We certainly understand the challenges in the sector for a range of reasons. It's good to hear about the diversification and the innovations that are taking place in the sector.
We've heard other testimony here of those who are the force, such as the primary producers, and the challenges in the sector in terms of mills closing, etc. Yet at the very same time. we heard from others, as we are from FPInnovations, of the range of diversification and innovation that can happen, the spur or the new spin-offs and the creation of new products, companies, expert capabilities, and so forth. The thing that occurred to me, as we were hearing this, is that there seems to be a gap there between those in that primary part and the emerging new opportunities.
This question is for both of you. What role could we have to incentivize a greater meeting of that gap? It seems to me that things like the bugs and fire, etc., are challenges for sure. At the same time, we heard other testimony that some of that wood that wouldn't be used in one way can be used in other ways, which is the diversification and innovation side. When we were hearing testimony we were hearing it from one end of the country to the other. What can we do as a federal government to incentivize that coming together?
I'll get to my second question in a second.