Natural Resources committee  I have just one comment. I agree with everything my colleague has said about the marine side of it. The only thing I would add is on the trucking side. There is a huge amount of competition, I agree, and anybody or any organization can go out and buy a truck. You can negotiate w

Natural Resources committee  Perhaps I can comment on that.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I had a couple of comments. I agree with what Ms. Morgan had to say. She's correct: the bulk of our product is transported by rail, and that's why we tend to focus on it. Also, the alternative, for example, of marine is not necessarily available to all of the industry that

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  I agree with Ms. Morgan that running rights are also a partial solution to the situation. I also want to talk for a second about the lack of consequences as a result of having what's basically a government-supported monopoly. There are no consequences for having very poor servic

Natural Resources committee  I don't have access to studies of that nature. However, I would point out that in the last figures I saw in Canada, the forest products industry is one of the only industrial sectors, if not the only sector, that has met what in the past would have been Kyoto targets. The last nu

Natural Resources committee  Can I make one final comment? At the Terrace Bay pulp mill we in fact are downpiling pulp out in the parking lot. We have so much capacity, but of those 120 cars we need, we're only getting 40 to 70, and the excess capacity has filled up our warehouse. All the warehousing space

Natural Resources committee  Thanks, Pino. I'd like to pick up from there. As an inland producer at Terrace Bay Pulp, we do have other alternatives, I guess, but not satisfactory alternatives. One of them is marine transportation, and I wanted to talk for a few minutes about that. We are on Lake Superior

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to appear in front of this standing committee. The Terrace Bay pulp mill is the newest member of the Buchanan group of companies. My friend and colleague Pino Pucci is the president of lumber sales, so we are going to tag-team this presentat