International Trade committee  Currently, we are talking about paper and lumber.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  Currently, the market is worth $120 million. We sell only $8 million worth of products. So there is a potential for another—

International Trade committee  Exactly. This would be with respect to the United States.

International Trade committee  Absolutely. Thank you. I think the latest irritant.... Let me rewind the clock a little bit. We ship $24 billion worth of our product outside of our borders. About 70% of that goes to the U.S.; the U.S. remains our most important marketplace. However, it's also one of great depe

International Trade committee  We sell products to Panama. We do not employ any staff. We simply sell softwood lumber and pulp and paper. This may be more—

International Trade committee  —up to him to answer.

International Trade committee  I'll try to avoid the obvious softwood lumber discussion. I think it's still early days for most of those deals for us, for sure. We were already present in those marketplaces, so they weren't exactly frontier markets for us. Certainly what we would expect to have happen as the

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I see a number of new faces around the table at this meeting, so by way of a brief introduction, Forest Products Association of Canada is the national voice for Canada's wood, pulp, and paper producers. It's an industry in Canada that accounts for about

Government Operations committee  Absolutely. As legislators, as parliamentarians, you always have a balance of interests you've got to keep in mind, and you have to keep it. So there may be technical problems with this bill, I don't doubt that. I have not seen the technical language around those bills. I believ

Government Operations committee  I think you're exactly right, Ms. Coady. The level playing field is essentially that we now start taking a look at the buildings from a more holistic standpoint. Up until now, we've sort of said “Can you build ten storeys with...or what can you build with, given the fire codes an

Government Operations committee  I have two quick points. Mr. Martin, your concern for the sort of overall environmental impact is exactly right, and that's why we say let's go after the life-cycle assessment and get that into the process. We will go up against any other building product out there, and gladly

Government Operations committee  That is easy to answer. It is more than 50%, which represents $24 billion. Most of our products are exported.

Government Operations committee  Yes, 70% of our production goes to the United States.

Government Operations committee  Monsieur Labbé said it well, but just very quickly, clearly the Government of Canada is not going to.... This is not our most important market. Our most important markets are outside of the border. But I will say that it's important that we demonstrate at home that we support the