This is a very interesting topic. Sawmills have greatly automated over the years. Canadians are world leaders. In Quebec, we have the best sawmill machinery manufacturers.
However, even if we receive money to become even more productive, we'll simply produce more lumber and flood the market even more. Where we need help is in finding tricks to lower our production costs. Adding a sawline is not going to get us there. Yes, it will lower our production costs, but we'll just produce more lumber. I mentioned energy, for example. Why is diesel more expensive in Quebec than elsewhere in Canada? Perhaps we could get forest fibre more efficiently using electricity. In our business, we use a lot of diesel. You have to transport the lumber from the forest to the mill and then from the mill to the customer. As I often say, it's a very large product, but it's not worth much.
