Natural Resources committee  There is another key point. Canada's forests are sustainably managed. We do an excellent job of managing that resource; we are leaders in that respect. We have access to a renewable fibre that will be there for years to come. That's a key condition. We also have an extensive research network in Canada; we have many people with a lot of passion for forestry and the forest industry.

Natural Resources committee  If I may say, in the application for the PPGTP program especially we did not face the constraints we normally do for pre-funding or pre-spending, so the application rules of the program were much easier. I think that's one of the keys, along with the spirit of the program, which was to modernize the industry, namely, the ease of access to the fund and the ease of access of applications.