Natural Resources Committee on March 13th, 2008

Evidence of meeting #21 for Natural Resources in the 39th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was need.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

The Unique Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Forest Products Industry

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Leon Benoit

Claude DeBellefeuille

Also speaking

Bob Matters Chair, Steelworkers' Wood Council, United Steelworkers

Joe Hanlon President, Local 2693, United Steelworkers

Luc Bouthillier Full Professor, Department of Wood and Forestry Science, Faculty of Forestry and Geomatics, Université Laval

James D. Irving President, J. D. Irving Limited

David Cohen Professor, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia

Jack Saddler Dean of the Faculty of Forestry and Professor of Forest Products Biotechnology, University of British Columbia

Jean-Luc Bourdages Committee Researcher

1:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit

The clerk has indicated that we won't be able to get it done by the twelfth if we have this extra meeting.

1:05 p.m.

Liberal

Omar Alghabra Liberal Mississauga—Erindale, ON

But can't we draft the report, work on the report?

1:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit

Yes. You can certainly work on the report.

1:05 p.m.

Liberal

Omar Alghabra Liberal Mississauga—Erindale, ON

We can prepare it. We may need to add just a few paragraphs. Okay.

1:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit

We'll approach it that way.

Agreed.

The meeting is adjourned.