Natural Resources committee  Certainly, the industry's wood fibre needs are met to a large extent by fibre from private forests. We now have much less access to the public forest. In the last 10 years, the supply of wood fibre from the public forest has decreased by 10 million cubic metres. So there is a lot of potential in the private forest.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, absolutely. The last two years have been disastrous for our companies. If the market doesn't allow us to have enough revenue to cover our production costs, there's a problem. The production costs are not so much related to production as to the purchase of the fibre, which is now very expensive.

Natural Resources committee  Very well. I will conclude by saying that the forestry sector has had a hand in the regional development of each and every one of Quebec's beautiful regions through hydroelectricity. It is therefore imperative that the government continue to support regional development. Thank you.

Natural Resources committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for this opportunity. Allow me to begin by telling you a bit about who we are. The Coopérative forestière de Petit Paris is a 50-year-old organization based, of course, in Quebec, not in Paris. We are located in Saint-Ludger-de-Milot, in Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean, in the heart of the beautiful Lac-Saint-Jean area.