Finance committee  The technology does exist to redo the forest industry. Every pulp mill in Canada can survive. They will make different things. It needs to leapfrog the technology and become a source of chemicals, fuels. Every cord of wood contains almost two barrels of oil. The technology to get

Finance committee  I think the government has to show leadership in promoting the biofibre industry, and it has to do that through a national policy of technology, research, and development leadership. It should provide the light, not the paved road. I think the industry can do that. We need to lea

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'm glad to be here. I want, as David said, to repeat a couple of things. The pulp and paper industry is merely a hundred years old. For the first seventy years, up until about 1975, it enjoyed a very good life. It always had its three- to fi