Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The reason I ask the question is because we are talking about regional capacity. I believe there are a lot of conflicts out there, especially between First Nations communities and the way the consultation has taken place with forest management.
This is a responsibility that was devolved from the federal government. There are certain obligations under different agreements, either regions with agreements or without agreements, there has to be more done to improve the consultation and the community concerns as to how this resource is going to be developed, and exactly how the impacts can be dispelled or brought to a minimum. I feel this department should be doing more to expand itself, like we are doing in the human resources sector, where we have officers in most of our communities. We have a regional human resource base that deals with the renewable resource sector, but with non-renewable, you talk about putting people in the different regions dealing with oil and gas. Can we expand that regarding the decentralization and the regional capacity, so we can see the forestry industry being developed in all the regions, not just one or two?