Natural Resources committee  That's my personal opinion, yes.

Natural Resources committee  Actually, 25% of our manufacturing—

Natural Resources committee  —and between 50% and 75% of all our innovation activity occurs in Canada.

Natural Resources committee  Sorry.

Natural Resources committee  I can, definitely, if I can remember them. The first item was why a disproportionate amount of our research and effort is going into Canada. I would say that, looking from the top down at the government agencies on a federal and provincial level and also at the universities, it

Natural Resources committee  You're right, I might surprise you, because I was actually trained by one of the greatest fundamental scientists in the space of wood chemistry. I happen personally to be of the opinion that the role of universities is to produce people; that the work, the creation of knowledge,

Natural Resources committee  The paper statistic might be a little misleading. We manufacture two main products: pulp fibres, which go into market pulp, and paper, which is a primary conversion of the pulp into a higher-value-added product. The paper industry is an interesting one. Much like tissue grades,

Natural Resources committee  What I would say is that relative to the commercialization arc, or the path of commercialization, on these new and value-added products from the forest sector, it really depends on the platform or the nature of the product. Today we would say that fibre and fibre-based material

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, right honourable chairman and honourable members of Parliament. As you may know, Domtar is a publicly traded company with global operations that directly employ approximately 10,000 persons and generate annual revenues of over $5 billion. We operate under two divisio