Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Could I just take a second to send my regards to my friend Bob Larocque, although I have no questions for him?
I would like to go back to some comments from Mr. Samray and Mr. Kumar.
Mr. Kumar was talking about high-capacity plants. In another study we did on the forest industry, I was told that a high-capacity biorefinery could cost about $2 billion.
Earlier, Mr. Samray was telling us about the program called investments in forest industry transformation, which is being funded to the tune of $35 million over two years. That is clearly insufficient.
Could Mr. Samray or Mr. Kumar tell me whether a high-capacity lignocellulosic biomass processing plant requires an investment of about $2 billion?
I have another question for Mr. Kumar and it is little more specific.
Mr. Kumar, when you process lignocellulosic biomass, do you just make biofuels, or can you make other products that can, for example, replace petrochemicals in plastics?