Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all our witnesses.
Mr. Nighbor, you mentioned some of the discussions around our two billion trees initiative and so on. I know there's an announcement today describing that. Of course, somehow what's lost in the narrative is the reality of what provinces and foresters have been doing for decades. The industry in Alberta planted more than 100 million trees in 2021 and in Ontario 36.7 million trees. B.C. plants on average 218 million trees a year. Industry is doing that. They are doing their part. It's a great photo op to be able to talk about these things, but the reality is that, as you have indicated, that's just a very small part of what is important as far as the forestry industry is concerned.
Are there other initiatives, such as insect and disease condition control, old-growth forest management, mountain pine beetle and so on, where the government could actually be doing some things that would be more effective?