Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for your leadership. We actually spoke yesterday in the lobby and talked about how expansive your portfolio is. There could almost be three different ministers for all the work that you are doing on what is a really important portfolio to Canada.
Forestry is a big industry in Kings—Hants. We've had testimony about the importance of wood as it relates to mass timber. I know in your home province and in other places in the country there are some mass timber facilities that are playing in. There's a company in Nova Scotia called Mass Timber Company. It has two of the largest saw mill owners in the province, which happen to be located in Kings—Hants. They're looking to try to get a project off. IFIT has been a really important program to drive some of these innovations in forestry. I believe it's oversubscribed. It's been a very popular program.
Could you tell those folks at home who might be listening if that is the mechanism we would be encouraging this type of company to apply for? Is that something that NRCan continues to want to commit to in the days ahead?