Finance committee  Absolutely. I would just say that only a very small component is made up of raw logs. I know that question continues to be raised by this committee, but the value components are pulp, lumber, and paper. We'll get all of that to you.

Finance committee  We should think about the existing manufacturing base and how we add in these green opportunities. FPAC has a strong position in support of these ideas. You have approximately a billion dollars, give or take, of assets in each of these communities in rural Canada. Why wouldn't yo

Finance committee  There were 100,000 more. I would suggest, though, that these changes are not all from productivity improvements; the vast majority of those jobs went because of structural and significant downturn in the economy.

Finance committee  I'd like to say that the position I've tried to put on the table is that we do have a tremendous potential ahead of us. It's not going to be easy, and I think we are not going to be able to get there alone. We have 60,000 jobs that we want to achieve in the next six years. That i

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I'm going to echo the point that we need to be vigilant on looking at our hosting conditions. I think great steps have been taken. More steps can be taken. On the point about spending less, obviously we have a strong partnership with the forest industry and with government on o

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  First of all I have to say that it's really nice to be able to talk about some successes after the decade we've had, so that's fantastic. Absolutely, we're exploring. We've launched Vision2020, and it was not lacking in ambition. We want to add $20 billion to our $57 billion cu

Finance committee  Yes, we definitely can. It's a bit of a patchwork quilt across the country, but overall for sure, everyone is looking at hiring again, which is very encouraging. We're aiming for 60,000 new jobs by 2020. We're well on our way. We've had 8,000 in the last year or two, and we are d

Finance committee  The softwood lumber agreement has been a terrific agreement for the Canadian forest industry. The prevailing view, of course, is we're hoping for renewal. I think we want to hang onto that view. It is important that the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development spend t

Finance committee  I think one of our reactions throughout the decade, which has been a very difficult time, was to focus on retooling our operations to seek better productivity than any of our competitors globally. We have a full report on this which I would be happy to submit to the clerk. I don'

Finance committee  In our sawmill sector, for example, we outpace our U.S. counterparts. In the overall Canadian sectors we are the leader; the only leader beyond us could be agriculture. I have my colleague here with me. We really did have to double down, make some major changes, and continue to

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. My name is Catherine Cobden. I am the executive vice-president of the Forest Products Association of Canada. To begin, I'd like to remind you that Canada enjoys one of the largest and best-managed fibre baskets in th

Finance committee  I would say we have certainly, as you can imagine, a strong academic engagement on this issue across the country, some of it facilitated by the climate change and atmospheric research program, but I guess what I'm saying as we start looking at the trends and the changes—that prog

Finance committee  It was in 2013.