There is only one other example that I can find where a parliamentary committee was seized with the issue of promoting one construction product over another. There was a report from the committee on international trade, in 2005, that said Canada should promote the use of asbestos at every opportunity: we should use it more domestically; we should export more; we should mine it more; we should promote it in every respect.
I used to work in the asbestos mines, and it bothered me that we would be using a parliamentary committee to promote one regional issue like that for building material.
Nowhere else in the history of Parliament can I find a bunch of MPs trying to dictate what kind of doorknobs should go on the next.... You know, that's as silly as it is, to me.