There are a few things.
First, with regard to the access to fibre, you're right that there has been a cumulative effect. It's been the mountain pine beetle. It's been the increased frequency and magnitude of forest fires in B.C. Now we see the emergence of the spruce beetle. When I speak to Diane Nicholls, the chief forester for the B.C. government, she tells me that there is a large amount of forest fibre still remaining, much of it on the forest floor. B.C. has started to implement some policy changes and regulatory reform to use that fibre. The mountain pine beetle was before my time, but to my understanding, there were increased efforts to get that wood down while there was still some value to the fibre. Diane Nicholls may be a witness before this committee, so I'd ask her specifically about that.
Certainly in our federal programming, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, in particular in the investments in forest industry transformation, or IFIT, we are looking at proposals now. We are trying to direct those programs to the bioeconomy and to use all forms of fibre as quickly as possible. It's not just for two-by-fours; it's higher-value product and biomaterials. That's what the federal government is doing.
We also have a national pest program. We're providing the science, the research and the monitoring for many of these pests across Canada, in particular the mountain pine beetle, the spruce budworm in the east, and the emerald ash borer.