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Natural Resources committee If I may add something here, you talk about the role of technology and innovation in transformation. Basically transformation takes time and energy and investment for the long term. It's important to recognize that, in the past, we were pushing technology and now we're trying to
February 17th, 2015Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee It's one tonne of CO2. Basically, on average, every time you use a cubic metre of wood in a building, it sequesters one tonne of CO2 overall. We're doing various studies for various provinces and we figure that sequestration of CO2 in buildings, in wood, is one of the best kind
November 22nd, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee If I may add on the de-risking, I think you're putting your finger on exactly some of the right issues and where additional funding will be needed. We need to realize that when we look at investment and de-risking, we need to look at the process, and the products, and we need to
November 22nd, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee The market, unfortunately—
November 22nd, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee That's it exactly—and fast-tracking the process.
November 22nd, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee Actually, he'll start first.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members, for the invitation to present as a witness to this group. Our organization has presented a few times on other topics. We want to maintain our role as being kind of a third party, factual and science-based organization. I believe everybody has a
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee You can start, Michael.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee Our role as FPInnovations is basically providing science and facts to support decision-makers, designers, and architects, and so on in terms of what they're going to do. We don't get into the policy and the amendments as such. I think I'll leave that to you, the experts, to do th
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee I don't have all the most recent data. When you look at the potential for growth in Canada and also in North America more broadly.... We talked about mid-rise in terms of volume, but I believe that governments have a devoir d'exemplarité. I am not sure how you translate that, but
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee First, I'm a forester by training. Your explanation was very good, so I don't have to repeat it. You did very well. Actually, people look at forests more as a straight Polaroid picture than a video. Nature is a living ecosystem. It goes up in fires, has insects, and whatever. Th
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee I don't know the specifics of that, nor the restaurant, but in terms of the quality of the product, in drying wood, wood is a living material as well. We try to dry it down to a certain level. After it gets into an environment, things change, and when you look at the structural s
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee Yes, that can be done properly, both aspects there.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee I feel that my colleagues from the Canadian Wood Council would be better able to give you an answer on that, because they take care of the interface with the National Building Code. We provide the information needed for wood to be recognized for use in 10- or 12-storey buildings
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee Yes. The thing is that, in some sectors, wood is not accepted. Instead of evaluating the performance of wood as a material in construction systems, they prefer not to consider it. So I feel that the value of the bill lies in the fact that it will make wood a very competitive mate
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel