Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Obviously, we're sitting here in Ottawa today, and a lot of the focus, rightfully so, of this conversation thus far has been on Paper Excellence. The dynamic here is more broadly about the pulp and paper industry in Canada.
We're sitting here in our nation's capital. Today, of course, there is major smog—or I'll call it smoke—over the city in terms of the forest fires that are happening across the country. My understanding is that more than tenfold of what normally would burn in terms of forests in a given year has already burned in this wildfire season.
My questions are for Mr. Vaillancourt because I know that some of the fires have been particularly bad in Quebec. I'm wondering about the concern from the manufacturers association in terms of the actual supply of wood into different forestry practices, including pulp and paper. Can he speak about his association's concerns? I presume it's a concern about access to wood, particularly where a number of our forests are being burned, presumably some that would play into his sector.