Thank you, Mr. Jeffery.
In your opening statement, you stressed the importance of using wood products and promoting wood-based building. I've been an MP since 2019. Over the years, I have repeatedly pushed for legislation or a government policy that would require the federal government to take into account the carbon footprint of a proposal in the tendering of contracts. When you take a project's carbon footprint into account, wood tends to be the material that scores better than others. Unfortunately, though, such a measure has never come to fruition.
In the last Parliament, the NDP introduced a bill on the use of wood. Although the government agreed to it, the bill isn't binding. Essentially, what it says is that wood is a material that can be used, but I don't think the use of wood was prohibited previously. Let's just say the bill lacks teeth.
Would you welcome legislation or regulations requiring the government to take a project's carbon footprint into account when putting contracts out to tender or making the use of wood mandatory in such contracts?