Thank you. My question is for Dr. Stephen.
Thank you for being here, both of you.
I'm going to go back to part of your speech and bring you to central Europe and the Scandinavian countries. We know that the basis of everything begins with a healthy boreal forest, and I've heard from you both—and agree—that we have one of the healthiest boreal forests in the world. You take the tree to a sawmill—and we have 500 sawmills in 300 communities in Canada. You then produce lumber, and from the lumber you have wood chips and by-products. Then you go on to biomass cogeneration to produce heat and electricity for the engine for your pulp mills and then your paper mills. Most of them used to be called “company X power, pulp and paper”.
I am coming to the missing link, or where we've fallen behind, because we were a world leader. Dr. Stephen, why has Canada fallen behind the Scandinavian countries and parts of Europe that have capitalized on these bioenergy technologies to generate power? Where's our missing link, and what do we need to become again a world leader?
