Thank you.
Thank you to all of the witnesses today. It's all very interesting. We always learn so much when we hear from people across the country.
I'm going to start with Ken Kalesnikoff.
It's good to see you, Ken. You mentioned Thrums, and I just have to put it on the record what a tremendous asset to the community Kalesnikoff Lumber is. I stopped in at a Thrums market last week, and they said that you had bought 300 jars of borscht as Christmas presents. That is going to keep that very valuable market going. Thank you for that.
Getting back to the topic at hand, you mentioned government procurement and what the government could do to help innovators in this space, in particular in mass timber engineered wood. I'm just wondering if you could expand on that.
As everybody here probably knows, I have a private member's bill that spoke to that in the last Parliament. It's in the Senate right now, coming back the other way. That mass timber construction would have value for this country and for the environment. How could the government help out in that manner with procurement to build better buildings and really support the forest industry?