International Trade committee  That, plus a modest Canadian dollar, plus a little bit of market promotion. It's a globally competitive environment, so we need all of those. A part of the trade agreement that doesn't get talked about a lot is agreeing to engineering standards and phytosanitary standards. Makin

International Trade committee  I do have some of those statistics. Roughly 56% of it is pulp products and there's a whole range of pulp products. About 42% is wood products and there's a whole range of wood products. To get the value added of each product you'd have to look at it on a product-by-product basis.

International Trade committee  Yes. As I said in my opening remarks, there is about $6 billion worth of forest product trade that goes to South Korea. I haven't done the breakdown, but as you can imagine New Zealand, Indonesia, Russia, and all the countries around the Pacific Rim would have a part of that mark

International Trade committee  We've got a range of them up to 10%. Some are 5%, some are 8%, and some are 10% depending on the type of—

International Trade committee  I can't give you an estimate on how much. I think the companies are keen to increase their market share. I know that on the wood side our increase in sales into Korea has been in the order of magnitude of about 20% in the last couple of years, so there's a growth opportunity ther

International Trade committee  I don't have exact numbers. I was at Unifor's Good Jobs Summit this past weekend, and we have a good working relationship with both Unifor and the steelworkers. Unifor represents a lot of our mills in eastern Canada, and the steelworkers union represents a lot of the forest worke

International Trade committee  —a significant percentage.

International Trade committee  That's an excellent question, Mr. Davies. Thank you. The whole premise of our Vision2020 is to continue to innovate and find new uses of the forest fibre. So it's not just old lumber and two-by-fours. We used to send tall ship masts for the British navy; the British navy doesn't

International Trade committee  As I began to say to Mr. Davies, it's a wonderful, exciting opportunity for the forestry industry. Everything from the use of wood for construction.... We have something called cross-laminated timber. You can make taller wood buildings in countries that have earthquake challenges

International Trade committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. My name is David Lindsay. I represent Forest Products Association of Canada, and we're very pleased to be here. We thank the committee for the opportunity to present to you. The forest industry, as many of you ar

International Trade committee  Again, that's a very good question. One of the fundamental tenets of third party certification is that a third party auditor comes in to validate that you are harvesting with the most benign or least damaging footprint, protecting the streams and the contours of the land. Your r

International Trade committee  I can't answer that question right now.

International Trade committee  I'm about to bump up against my knowledge and competency on this because it was a story that was relayed to me by one of our CEOs. A group of researchers in India is working now with how to bring their textile competencies and capacities together with industrial products. One o

International Trade committee  I think in the forest sector, there are layers in that question. I won't speak to basic manufacturing and effluents and particulate matter in the atmosphere. I think where India is more sensitive on the logging side is that they are losing their forests, and they are concerned.

International Trade committee  Thank you, that's an excellent question, Mr. Hiebert. I set you up well for that. There are a number of issues with respect to lumber in India. We had similar challenges in China. The first is receptivity. If it's not part of the culture to build with wood, first you have to ge