Thank you, Chair.
This is an area that NRCan has been very active on in recent years, working with partners around the federal family, the National Research Council and others.
As you know, there are a number of different materials that we consider when we talk about green buildings. One is engineered wood products, and obviously NRCan has a deep interest in that. My colleague Glenn Hargrove could probably speak to that.
We do know that the embedded carbon in the materials we build these buildings with is a crucial part of getting to net zero. It's not just the heating systems, the appliances and the other things that consume energy; it's also the carbon that's baked into the way we build and dispose of buildings over time.
We have work happening in the CanmetENERGY labs to look at building envelopes and materials and how they can be reduced. We also recently announced that we would be working on a low-carbon building materials innovation hub, working across the federal family to push this science even further.