Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm sorry I was unable to be here earlier.
Mr. Paradis, last summer, I had a very educational experience. I was present for a woodcut that took place in a private forest. I was told that you have to be a passionate person to get into this business, since you can only harvest a forest after about 70 years. There were discussions on this subject with the main representatives of the forest producers' unions, Mr. Daniel Fillion and Mr. Pierre-Maurice Gagnon, to name but a few. I was told that it might be interesting to set up an income averaging system for forestry operations. In this way, logging revenues could be divided appropriately.
What's your opinion about this?