Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Minister, I'd like to come back to the $559 million invested in the emissions reduction fund. In my view, the oil and gas sector produces carbon, while the forestry sector captures it. There is a guiding principle for the environment, and it's called the bonus-malus principle, in other words, the polluter pays principle. You seem to be applying the polluter paid principle instead.
I don't know if you know this, but in the last four years, your government has given Quebec's forestry sector barely $70 million. And 75% of that is in the form of loans. That is 0.3% of the $20 billion that the forestry sector brings in each year in Quebec. It's not much. You get four times what you invest in the forestry sector.
I don't know if you can understand the dismay that some members of the forestry industry feel when they see those figures. Earlier, I did a quick calculation. In one year, you invest $559 million in the emissions reduction fund, when you have invested less than that in the forestry sector over the past 25 years.
Don't you feel that's unfair?