Natural Resources committee  Yes. We have a program with a few provinces and some of the industry looking at what we call “intelligent inventory”. One of the issues that the industry and the provincial governments have is the imprecision of inventory, and as a result, how much it is worth or how much less i

Natural Resources committee  It will be announced in the next few days.

Natural Resources committee  That is complete. It was used at the Vancouver Olympics, and it won a world green-building architecture prize.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. One of the issues with wood pellets in Canada, especially in Quebec and Ontario, is their cost. That high cost makes competition difficult. However, as long as European countries are subsidizing wood pellet production, it will only be profitable for those with lower w

Natural Resources committee  Our competitors are Finland and Sweden. When it comes to bioproducts, FPInnovations is ranked first or second compared with those two countries. In terms of wood construction, our performance is lower than that of European countries, especially Austria. So we need to increase o

Natural Resources committee  I would say that the lack of Canadian equipment manufacturers is to blame when it comes to logging operations. That's the biggest problem. We have lost a lot of ground, both in terms of sawmills and machinery. That's one of the biggest challenges we face. In the area of wood pro

Natural Resources committee  In the case of those two premieres, what the federal government is doing is rather a premiere in Canada, whereby they accept the fact of going in to finance pre-commercial testing facilities. In the case of the nanocellulose with Domtar in Windsor, they facilitate about 50% of th

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to mention that we sent a slide deck to you. I will refer to it. I won't go through each slide, but I will refer to them, because some pictures are worth a thousand words. FPInnovations was born in that era of 2008 from the merger of four res