Thank you, Mr. Chair. Allow me to thank all of the witnesses today. It's a fantastic amount of information we were given here, and its quite enlightening.
I'm going to start my questioning with CPAWS. I really appreciate that we do need to set land aside in Canada for biodiversity, making sure that there is no footprint that is actually just industrial at the end of the day.
Can we talk about fire's role in the natural ecosystem? Part of what we're hearing here is that we've over-managed these forests by neglecting fire. As a result, the fires are much more intense than they used to be. Can you comment on that? If we just set land aside and did not manage the fire outcome there, what would the natural evolution be in that case?