Thank you, Sylvain.
Sylvain is right that we have a lot of work to do in this area.
In British Columbia, there's an initiative under way to focus on building and advancing manufactured mass timber components. That's really important. However, the first thing you have to do for that is to grow demand. You must have demand. The market is actually quite efficient: If you have demand for a lot of mass timber buildings in your province, you are going to get more people producing.
It's unusual. You have to have a cost advantage to send these structures which are...I have two boys. They're older now, but I played a lot with Lego. These are sending Lego blocks to construct buildings on site. These are very heavy. If the transportation costs are going to be high, you're better off utilizing the product close to where it's produced. We have the opportunity to do that, but we have to actually grow demand.
The first thing we need to do is to grow demand for those buildings and those products here, because that will send a signal to the market to put more of those manufacturing plants in place that deliver significant jobs.
I have to go back to what I said in my remarks. The single biggest deterrent to people making those investments is this uncertainty that we have around access to fibre at a reasonable cost. If people are making a significant investment decision, they're going to be making that with a 20- or a 25-year payback period. They have to be able to know that they're going to have access to fibre at a reasonable cost for a long period of time to justify making significant investments.
That's really critical. It's why some of these fundamental challenges around access to fibre, regulations and the ability to compete are so critically important.
I have one last comment to make before I turn it back to Sylvain. Value-added manufacturing in all of its forms is not just mass timber. We produce a whole bunch of things that people don't even know about, everything from mass timber to guitar tops. It's a big long list. Sylvain said we've got this opportunity. We've got everybody looking to fibre as a way to make products that have a lighter touch for the planet, but there's a whole range. We need to double down on those efforts. I could not agree more with Sylvain.