Mr. Speaker, during the parliamentary break, Canada and Malaysia hosted an international conference here in the capital.
This conference focused on efforts to improve sustainable forest management around the world. It is of great significance that Canada and Malaysia and other participants have been able to establish a process which furthers the aims established in Rio in 1992. Our leadership and involvement in this process recognize the critical importance of forestry to this country's economic and social well-being and our commitment to sustainable development.
These meetings and future meetings could well see a positive commitment by all forest nations to environmentally sustainable development throughout the world.