Good morning, everyone. I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 66 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee is meeting on the Canadian pulp and paper industry.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format. All of the members are online. You know the drill, so I'm not going to go into the details.
Welcome to our guests who are here in person today. We have for witnesses representatives from Industry Canada. They are Mark Schaan, senior assistant deputy minister, strategy and innovation policy sector, and DeNeige Dojack, director, investment review division. From Natural Resources, we have Greg Smith, director, economic analysis division, Canadian forest service. From Public Safety Canada, we have Richard Bilodeau, director general.
Two of the departments have five-minute opening statements. I use a handy card system. I'll give you the yellow card, which means 30 seconds are left, and the red card means wrap it up, but don't stop mid-sentence. Then we'll get into our rounds of questions, which starts off with six minutes for each and then shorter ones after that.
Let's go to our Industry Canada representatives first, and get right into it today.
You'll have five minutes on the clock.