Thank you, Derek, and I want to speak to Mr. Beck too.
I'll bring both of you into this conversation because you, Mr. Beck, referred to the stumpage issues. Again, that's a provincial matter, but I've been puzzled by why the stumpage system we have in B.C. is not really taking advantage of all the beetle-kill wood. I've said this many times, and this committee is probably getting tired of me saying it. It used to be the pine beetle and now it's the spruce beetle, and we don't have a way to target that wood and get it down while it's still usable. It just sits there and dies and becomes unusable. There's no better stumpage rate to pull that out unless it's completely dead.
Mr. Beck, you referred to this. It's making B.C. uncompetitive in our forest sector, so we'll start with Mr. Beck and go to Mr. Orr.
Can you speak to that, to competitiveness, and how important it is to have a competitive forestry? What are some things we need to do to keep it that way in B.C.?