Thank you, Mr. Chair, and hello, everyone.
I'm very pleased to be here. There a lot of great information.
I have the honour of being the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources.
By way of background, I'm from Kapuskasing, a pulp and paper town up in northern Ontario. My dad was a welder there and my grandfather helped build the mill back in the 1920s and 1930s, and my uncles and cousins all worked there, so I was able to afford an education. They're good-paying jobs, great middle-class jobs there, so I'm a big champion of the forestry industry.
I've seen it first-hand where it is: the people planting trees and cutting those trees, and the innovation in that sector. I have a lot of questions and very little time.
I do not have a lot of time. I am first going to turn to Mr. Cossette.
At the beginning, you spoke about the challenges facing the pulp and paper industry. What steps do you think you will be taking to adapt to the changes that are coming? How do you see the future of the pulp and paper industry? How will it go about innovation?
You have about one minute.