Great.
I think there are a number of things. Not far from your home community in Vancouver, we saw a recent move by the Vancouver City Council to move their building codes to 12 storeys. They joined 13 other B.C. municipalities, including Richmond and Surrey, that are working in that space.
We have seen the Horgan government commit to a value-added strategy, which we welcome. I think that's great.
One of the things for us, in working with that, is that in order to ramp up that kind of demand, you need to make sure that the supply is sustainable and also that there is certainty on that land base to support that business growth.
We're quite confident that the sustainability factors are there. Our goal is to keep those forests as forests forever. Provincial governments, including the chief forester in B.C., Diane Nicholls, set that allowable cut every year based on what the forest looks like. That is why we've seen a really difficult time in B.C. coming out of the mountain pine beetle and then the 2017-18 fires that, in some communities.... I know that not far from where Mr. Zimmer lives, you've seen some communities lose 20%, 30%, 40% of their allowable cut. That has meant too many mills chasing too few trees and has led to some of the closures.
I think there is a whole host of issues at the provincial level in B.C. around stumpage costs—and that could extend to Quebec and Ontario and different provinces in terms of that cost to operate. But based on the stuff we can control from a federal level, I think that with the value-added strategy around supporting tall wood, building codes, ongoing innovation—I know that Stéphane Renou of FPInnovations is going to talk a bit about that later on—we do see huge opportunity in the value added.
Government procurement is another area. I know that Minister Murray and Andy Fillmore have been working on some of that. Richard Cannings had a private member's bill as well on that, so I think that government procurement is also an avenue to explore.