Government Operations committee  Again, thanks, Jay, and thanks for your comments on the institute. It's great for our national office to be located in your riding . We've worked on some things before with the biomass and bioenergy side of things, so I use that as an example. But even coarse-level data that tel

Government Operations committee  That's a really good question. I would say that we don't have a lot of data readily available or open to business development or the entrepreneurial side of business. I think there's an opportunity, with Canada and all these jurisdictions—the provinces and so on—through a body su

Government Operations committee  It's a really good question. I'll give my personal perspective on it. I've worked both in industry and government in several provinces prior to my position with the Canadian Institute of Forestry. The one thing that always seemed to dominate was the cost of getting good data. Re

Government Operations committee  That's a very good question. I don't think at the federal level our members would say they've been that frustrated. We work with the Great Lakes Forestry Centre, for instance; the Atlantic Forestry Centre, the Pacific Forestry Centre; the Northern Forestry Centre; and the Canadia

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I want to start off by first thanking the committee for asking me to testify. I think this is my fifth testimony in eight years. I appreciate the opportunity to speak on behalf of our membership. I'll start by telling you a little bit about the C