Natural Resources committee  It's quite possible. We would be less dependent. If markets return, with the pine beetle reduction in our fibre availability, with the exports to other countries, the United States may be more in a position of asking for our stuff than trying to control it. Time will tell, but i

Natural Resources committee  We're an exporting industry and we're competing against Brazil, the Scandinavian countries, Russia, and parts of China. If we can't beat them, there isn't enough money in the federal treasury to save our bacon. You simply cannot support us if we can't be competitive. You can help

Natural Resources committee  The Japanese are scared to death of fire, so they're scared of wood. We should be trying to sell them paper houses, I guess. But they've had so many disasters with fire, so we've had to work—this is where government is absolutely essential—with the Japanese government to change t

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I'm going to say all of them.

Natural Resources committee  I don't want to lie to please you. If you want to cut money from Natural Resources, go into the A base, because you could sharpen all of those programs. I've made my suggestions to the officials at NRCan on how to make them a little more strategic and a bit sharper. All of those

Natural Resources committee  The green transformation program of $1 billion. We love that the most.

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. If anything, more. To be fair to the Department of Natural Resources, they have shifted quite a bit of their focus to adaptation and on how growth patterns of the forest are changing. But I would say that overall, Canada and every other developed country are spendin

Natural Resources committee  We're not seeing things get much worse in the forest. We've certainly have had drier seasons, and therefore more fires in the drier seasons than what the climate models would predict. Nothing to compare to the failure to kill off the beetle, which we depended upon cold winters fo

Natural Resources committee  It's a wonderful idea, and we've seen it work well. It's not a panacea, because the hardships the big companies face in trying to make the economics work, with all their resources and their networks and their supply chains, are just doubled when you.... We have to remember that

Natural Resources committee  They are serious irritants; they're not huge impediments. If you were to ask us what our number one interest is in, for example, India, China, or Korea, it's not getting rid of the trade impediments; it's getting rid of the market resistance and cultural impediments. Most of wh

Natural Resources committee  I better let Catherine talk or she will never come with me again.

Natural Resources committee  There have been lots.

Natural Resources committee  I don't have the numbers here.

Natural Resources committee  It's a little more complex than that. Certainly our government spent far smarter than the U.S. government, but when you're talking about a ratio of six to one, even a bit of clumsiness still gets you more results. The big difference we've seen is that at a time in which everyon

Natural Resources committee  They definitely lost lots of jobs.