Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank my colleague Mr. McKinnon for giving me these 45 seconds.
First of all, there is one thing that is essential for the committee to understand: We are in a critical situation. Long-term measures can be put in place for the forestry industry, but before we see any effect, we must ensure that all players in the forestry ecosystem are maintained.
It is in this spirit that I put my first question to Mr. St.John.
I understand that it is essential to focus on developing new markets. However, I strongly doubt that this is possible in the short term for commodity products. First, the use of the imperial system rather than the metric system makes it difficult to consider sending commodities to European markets. Perhaps this will be possible for value-added products.
In your opinion, is it possible, in the short term, to bypass the American market in order to develop new markets specifically for commodities?