Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I have a question for the deputy minister. With a Simard talking to a Tremblay, you would think we were in Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean.
When I add up all funds allocated to all existing programs and initiatives to support the forest industry—such as the forest innovation program, the investments in forest industry transformation program, the expanding market opportunities program, and the indigenous forestry initiative— I get a total of $251 million a year. To me, that's pretty astounding because it's half of what was invested to support Coastal GasLink, which was $500 million.
We heard from people on the committee that the costs of converting pulp and paper mills are very high. With a budget of about $82 million a year for IFIT, the investments in forest industry transformation program, I can only think of one way to explain it, and that is a lot of projects get rejected.