Environment committee  Yes. We make two kinds of cement: portland-limestone cement and general use cement. The general use cement goes through the kiln at about 1,500°C for two or three minutes. When you make portland-limestone cement, you add limestone at the end of the process, so you're not using as

Environment committee  The same equivalency of product.

Environment committee  Same product and no price differentiation. It's the same price.

Environment committee  Tender writers, specifiers, and procurement individuals are very slow to change. It's “we did this last year; we did this 10 years ago”. We believe in the CO2 road map that I referred to, and we will be sure to get that to you. Government will have to have a role in regulations

Environment committee  Second reading.

Environment committee  No, and that's typically what happens with the wood industry. They take tens of millions of taxpayers' dollars and then they lobby all of you and get what they want. Canada is founded on fur, fish, and lumber. Whenever we talk about fish on the east coast or lumber across the c

Environment committee  Good to see you.

Environment committee  From Ontario east, concrete today should beat asphalt pricing almost every time. We've won the last 12 or 13 tenders on the 400 series in the Toronto area, and we won those at first cost. Concrete from Manitoba west is a little bit more expensive than asphalt on first cost. Howe

Environment committee  If anybody ever offers to give you a set of cement shoes, that's the option to go for.

Environment committee  Cement is a powder, like baby powder. Concrete—well, they're still looking for Jimmy Hoffa.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I think Michael Giroux and I would agree, since we're very active players on the national building code, that today they're fixated on the distance between spindles on a staircase so that kids' heads don't get stuck in them or so that kids can't launch themselves over the railing

Environment committee  I'm going to let my colleague, Adam Auer, answer that one.

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair and members, for this great opportunity to address you today on what our industry feels is society's greatest challenge, which is the fight against climate change and how we tackle that through reducing greenhouse gases from the industry building