Personally, I like the way this bill presents things. As you say, engineers who know about wood and architects who know about building with wood and engineered wood know what a good product it is. They know that it's beautiful, it's safe, it's cost-effective and it helps the Canadian economy.
What I really wanted to do, and what I think the Quebec wood charter and the Wood First Act in British Columbia do, is point to wood. We should be thinking of wood. Too often, people who are building buildings have been building with cement, concrete and steel for so many years. That's all they think about. This would point them in the direction of wood and say, "You should consider using wood. It's a great product, and it's widely available."
That's the approach I thought would be best, rather than prescriptive use. You know, across Canada we have some provinces like Quebec and British Columbia that are very wood-centred, but other provinces are not. I think this process is very beneficial and would achieve the same.