Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I'd like to compliment Minister Ng, as well as Brian Clow in the Prime Minister's Office and other officials at Global Affairs Canada whom we've been working with. They're clearly on top of the file. They're dealing with the USTR and other representatives. I want to correct that

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  We're seeing some change. Mississauga, for example, is now doing this. British Columbia Finance Minister Carole James moved away from the lowest-cost bid to the best bid wins, because we all know that when you have lowest cost, you have lowest value. I'm sorry, Mr. Chair.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Could you expand on that, Mr. Hoback?

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  The cement industry really is a closely controlled industry. There are about 25 major cement companies globally, so the five cement companies that are in Canada are the same five companies that are in the U.S., plus there are another five or seven on top of that. They make decisi

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  It's probably not, because they can choose to get their products made in Canada and use the advantage of our water system and rail system and ship them.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Along the same lines, Mr. Blaikie, a lot can be done from the procurement side. We should be talking about always conducting a life-cycle assessment, using the building materials that give you the longest life cycle. Secondly, choose building materials that give you the lowest

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  From our perspective, there is no greater societal challenge after COVID than climate change. I can give you an example of where American companies will bring cement from Korea and China into the U.S.—the Pacific northwest—and then put it on a truck and bring it into British Colu

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  I think it would be fair to say that it's hard to put an exact cost on it. It would be billions and billions of dollars between steel and cement, for sure, but it's about jobs, union jobs. It's about food on people's tables.

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  As Catherine Cobden said, these are green materials. Canada is noted for its green materials. As with steel, we have the cleanest fleet of cement plants in the world right here in Canada. That should be of interest to the American administration. Going to Mr. Lewis' point, I th

Economic Relationship between Canada and the United States committee  Thank you, Chair and committee members, for inviting me to speak here tonight. My name's Michael McSweeney and I'm president and CEO of the Cement Association of Canada. We represent five cement companies with cement manufacturing facilities across Canada. Our members are Ash G

Environment committee  I'll tackle that one because we're working with the City of Vancouver, the Province of B.C., because they're building 2,000 homes for homeless people. They're going down the road of wood modular homes. We're trying to say you need to use a building material that's going to last

Environment committee  We are doing it. What's preventing us is our politicians and civil servants. We are working very hard in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia to try to replace coal, petcoke, and natural gas, and take those fuels and replace them with biosolids, which come

Environment committee  You are the legislators, so legislate. Bring Jim Carr in, bring Navdeep Bains in, and ask, “Does Natural Resources and Navdeep Bains' department work with the Minister of Environment and Climate Change?” We have policy going up here, and then we have line departments. What we nee

Environment committee  First, if the government is going to choose winners and losers in the economy, that's a wrong fundamental premise. When you're funding hundreds of millions of dollars to the wood industry to promote itself and not the steel industry or the concrete industry, there's something fun

Environment committee  Yes.