Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the minister and deputy minister for appearing today and for answering our questions.
Thanks also for the invitation to the forestry round table on the day on the Hill. Unfortunately, I may not be here for the 14th. I'll be at home. One of our mills is closing, and there will be an event there on the 14th. That's the last large mill in my riding that will be shut down. We're hoping a buyer comes along between now and then, but it doesn't look promising.
On that topic, Mr. Lunn, when I first came to this committee, I think it was within the first few months of meetings, you came before us. I think it was the first time, and we talked about raw log exports. You said that you were very concerned about that. I'm wondering what steps you've taken or what you have done to curtail raw log exports from this country since that time. That's one of the largest reasons our mills are closing down. It's because they don't have any logs to mill. They are being exported.
My second question is with regard to the ecoENERGY program. You've answered some of this in your answers to the Bloc. I have people in the riding who have had inspections, and the inspections cost approximately $400. The amount of money they got back was $400. They felt that this didn't really give them much hope. They didn't see this as a big incentive for doing the work. Unfortunately, they had to spend around $11,000 to get their heat pump. I have been asked by them to ask a question about why it is so high and why there is not much of an incentive.
My last question is about the ecoAUTO program. That was discontinued, and I'm wondering why that was discontinued. I know a number of people who took advantage of it, and it was successful, in their minds. I wondered, from Natural Resources Canada's point of view, why it was scrapped.