Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. MacNeil, for appearing before us again. It's always good to see you and hear from you.
As you know, one of the themes of this study that we're undertaking is how the forest sector can help Canada reach its climate targets; how it can help reduce our emissions. I know the government takes credit for carbon sequestration in forests when it's calculating its emissions reductions. I forget the most recent figure, but I think it's somewhere around 20 megatonnes to 40 megatonnes. I have no idea how they calculate that or if it's just some magical algorithm.
I'm wondering if you could help me in terms of how those figures are calculated. I'm assuming that the emissions reductions they're putting in there are really additive and are the result of changes in the actions the government and industry are taking in changing past practices. Otherwise, we're taking credit for a carbon sequestration that's been going on for millennia while our emissions are going up. We're taking credit for 20 megatonnes in bad forest fire years, as we've not had this year, but in British Columbia, emissions are on the order of 200 megatonnes from those fires in that one province alone.
I'm wondering if you could help me with how that contribution of the forest sector is calculated in our carbon emission accounting.