Thank you very much.
Is there any direct hope from the federal government for unemployed forestry workers who've lost their jobs, such as extensions of EI benefits and those types of things? When you were here before, you advised that the $300 million for the competitiveness fund would be going directly to the provinces and territories. So that's $300 million divided by 13. I'm trying to determine how we can really get involved with workers and have a federal stamp on it--some kind of statement showing that the federal government is there helping, as opposed to just transferring money.
I don't know if you are aware that the honourable member for Thunder Bay—Superior North said in the finance committee that he had seven or eight projects on the go on this. I haven't received any details of this funding myself, so I'm wondering how we can apply for this, because our communities are certainly asking for it.
Specifically, how many trees have been saved from the infestation over the past number of years, and how many beetles have been stopped? I don't want to say that the minister is mathematically challenged when he says that $38 million is more than $1.5 billion, but....
Why don't you answer those three questions first.
Thank you.