Natural Resources committee  For the WD thing. Oh, excellent. Okay. Having said that, these people are hands-on. They go into operations and they help with local problems and they help improve productivity. We're suggesting the larger primary producers need that kind of help right now. And we have been p

Natural Resources committee  You're bang on. A lot of the transformative stuff we're talking about, even taking lignocellulose to make ethanol, let's say--trees to make ethanol--is going to take some time. So let's park that a minute, the stuff that's longer-term. And by time, I mean five to ten years. As

Natural Resources committee  Very briefly on the summit, I think the important thing is to get alignment. But I think it's more than bringing the same group together; it has to be something that moves forward. The future industry is not necessarily going to be the same one we have, or even the same players.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for those comments. I think they're very relevant, and the idea of a summit is well taken. I just participated in a Quebec summit with my colleagues, and it brought the parties together to try to get alignment and everybody starting from the same page. I think that is i

Natural Resources committee  I was not referring to the $10 million, but to other funding. That said, we must not forget that the federal government provided us with funding to set up FPInnovations. We are working towards ensuring that universities will take an interest in biocomposites and nanotechnology. T

Natural Resources committee  It is true that $10 million is not enough, but we must not forget that last year, the federal government invested $50 million in FPInnovations for its work on processing technologies. Moreover, we had an opportunity to increase that amount by another $10 million per year through

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I personally have had a lot of long-term experience, when I was in government before, in dealing with provincial-federal areas of cooperation. I think the question you asked really impacts on that. With the community trust of $1 billion, the ques

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I must say that I'm very pleased and I find very commendable the fact that this committee is spending the effort, time, and seriousness in looking at the forest sector, and looking at it not so much from a perspective of the crisis we're having