We heard at our last meeting from British Columbia that one of the reasons they brought in that policy was the way procurement was set up for building schools, for instance, you could pretty much only build a school with steel and concrete. There was a disincentive for wood so they wanted to have wood considered. At its heart that is really what this bill is all about. It's not about tilting the field in favour of wood per se, but just getting the government to consider wood in building, partly because of these newly engineered wood construction methods.
You say a third of the steel industry is involved in building. I don't know what federal procurement is, but you say you're worried about the knock-on effect. At most, we're talking about an impact of 8% or something.
If all the policies from Quebec and France, for instance, are trying to get 30% of their buildings built with wood, it seems it would have a minimal impact when you consider that steel and concrete have had the playing field to themselves for the past century. We're just trying to get the government to consider wood.
Can you comment on that?