As a result of our current forestry situation, and knowing that Canada has the third-largest forest area in the world and that our forests store significant quantities of carbon dioxide of fossil origin, our government announced a $21.9-billion investment plan in the recent budget to support green infrastructure. The goal is to encourage the use of renewable sources of energy to help with the commercial development of technologies to convert forest biomass into renewable natural gas, for example.
Mr. Ferguson, do you believe this association between the forestry industry and the gas industry would be desirable to re-energize our forestry industry by establishing a market for renewable natural gas created using forest waste?