I call the meeting to order. Welcome, everybody.
Thank you for joining us for meeting number seven of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources. I appreciate everybody taking the time to be here and logging on early.
To our witnesses, thank you for joining us.
There are a few rules of the road for any of you who may not have done this before. The process will be as follows.
Each witness group will be given up to a maximum of five minutes to make opening remarks. I apologize in advance that if you exceed the five minutes or are exceeding the five minutes, I may have to interrupt you and cut you off. It's my job to do that.
Similarly, when questions are being asked, each person asking questions is given a specific allotted amount of time, so I may have to do the same thing to them or to you.
Interpretation is available. You're free to speak in either official language, and we will be able to hear you.
Because we're online, be cautious. To everybody, please wait until somebody has finished speaking before you start speaking. I know I do it myself, so this is a warning to me as much as to anybody, but it does cause a problem for us, and more so for the interpreters.
On that note, I will welcome our witnesses: the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Tree Canada, Le Consortium de recherche et innovations en bioprocédés industriels au Québec, Carbone boréal, and as an individual, Kathy Lewis.
I will turn it over to the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society to start us off, for up to five minutes.