International Trade committee  I was actually referring to private investment. There's no doubt that the programs in place to help stimulate investment are very useful. As the president of the council said earlier, to meet the needs of the industry, the government's $50‑million program could be made into a $50

International Trade committee  Susan is right. Mandatory respondents have their own rate, following each administrative review. We have one company here in the eastern part of Canada that has a huge rate. The other two respondents are located in British Columbia. They also have their own rate. The whole of t

International Trade committee  Yes, clearly that would help the industry, even if just to reduce Canada's dependence on the primary wood processing industry in the U.S. and to protect against American protectionism. Investing in secondary processing would certainly be a way to guard against that dependence. I

Industry committee  What do I do?

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Masse. Actually, we still don't have an idea on the subject, because the news is too recent. All in all, I don't believe that this is going to make a huge difference in the price of softwood because—

Subcommittee on Canadian Industrial Sectors committee  When the issue of competitiveness arises, we very soon start talking about competitive advantage. One of our competitive advantages over our international competitors is that we are located near the largest softwood lumber market in the world. As the members from British Columbi

Finance committee  They must be refundable tax credits, otherwise there is no point.

Finance committee  Definitely, we have been calling for that for a long time, and we were very pleased to get it.

Natural Resources committee  That would be a good way to make sure that stronger companies survive. Weaker companies may not be in a position to struggle until the end--too bad, but those weaker companies will have to disappear.

Natural Resources committee  Actually, I wanted to comment on the first part of your intervention, when you were talking about the situation of the industry in 1959. What you're describing actually is a consolidation process. In British Columbia you were stuck with the so-called appurtenancy legislation th

Natural Resources committee  An investment climate, period, is the name of the game here. That's all we can say.

Natural Resources committee  The rule of thumb is that every tonne of biomass fuel used results in the elimination of one tonne of greenhouse gas. In the current context of the fight against climate change, the conversion to combustion of forest mass is entirely appropriate.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, obviously.

Natural Resources committee  I'm very familiar with the problems of RCM Antoine-Labelle because I come from Mont-Laurier. The forest industry has always gone through economic cycles. This isn't the first; we've been living through them for 150 years. However, we've never experienced one that was both so long

Natural Resources committee  The Quebec Forest Industry Council represents the vast majority of players in the primary processing industry. The exact figure escapes me, but we must have about 150 or 160 members. For example, AbitibiBowater represents one member. So we have major members, as well as smaller o