Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Natural Resources.
Next year, the federal government will make more than $20 million in cuts affecting private forestry in Quebec, thus penalizing thousands of forestry workers in the Lower St. Lawrence, Gaspé and North Shore regions. Participants in the private forestry summit held in Quebec last month demand that the federal government compensate producers.
I would like the Minister of Natural Resources to tell us what kind of compensation this government intends to give forestry workers?