Finance committee  Concerning the products in the mills, the Scandinavian countries have a very good supply chain and many of our mills would purchase from them. We are making aggressive investments and FPInnovations is working very cooperatively with the academic community, the research communit

Finance committee  I appreciate that we are out of time.

Finance committee  The infrastructure challenges across the country are not to be minimized or trivialized, but no matter how many trains you have, if they don't show up at your loading dock, you can't get your product on them.

Finance committee  The forest industry is part of a larger shippers' coalition, including the grain industry, the chemical industry, the auto industry, the mining industry, and others. We're not looking for additional regulations; we're looking for a dispute settlement mechanism. I can't speak for

Finance committee  The Forest Products Association has not got an official position on a carbon tax per se. Different provinces, Alberta and others, have some carbon tax. What we've done, on the pulp and paper side in particular, is reduce our emissions by 67%. Then, with the most recent program th

Finance committee  There have been a lot of initiatives by both the provinces and the federal government to try to help the forest sector, including the green transformation program. The report by the Canadian Forest Service in September itemizes a number of those benefits. We've made changes to th

Finance committee  Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to present to the committee today. Staff have already received our pre-budget submission and they have a copy of the more extensive remarks, so I'll try to keep my comments brief in the interest of time.