Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for welcoming me to the committee. It's an honour to be here.
Senator Griffin, thank you for being with us.
Mr. Cannings, it's not every day that we have a fellow member of Parliament from British Columbia here as a witness. I didn't want to miss the opportunity to meet with you and ask you a couple of questions about an industry that is so important to British Columbia—our forestry industry.
You said in a speech that you gave in the House introducing Bill S-222 to Parliament that this bill is modelled on the Wood First Act in British Columbia. I'd like to zero in on that a little bit. That might be a good model for us to see what impact Bill S-222 might have on the Canadian economy.
What difference did the Wood First Act of British Columbia make in British Columbia's forestry industry?