Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want thank all of our guests today. It's “Good afternoon” where I am, maybe “Good morning” where you guys are. I'm in Labrador, the northeastern section of Atlantic Canada.
Mr. Lahey, I'm going to start my questions with you today, on the research that you've been doing. I know that it's mostly connected to the work you've been doing in Nova Scotia, but we all know that forestry, for the most part, falls under provincial or territorial jurisdiction, and there are certain examples of it that do fall under the federal government and the role that we have to play.
I want to ask you this morning if you could highlight some of the research you've done and outline some of the recommendations that focus more exclusively on federal jurisdiction. Maybe you can make some recommendations in terms of how we should be moving forward as a Parliament in doing some of that work that recognizes more fully the need within the forest sector of Canada.