International Trade committee  I'm not an expert on caribou, but I know a bit about the issues brought about by the effects of climate change. The UN has a boreal forest committee, and Canada is on it. The committee analyzes the impacts of climate change, including as they relate to caribou. I think all the bl

International Trade committee  You're absolutely right. Primary processing is extremely important for the development of secondary processing. Between you and me, in the future, we won't have more access to land for logging in Canada, despite the demand, given the rules around biodiversity conservation. We'll

International Trade committee  Yes. If primary processing is doing well, secondary processing will do very well.

International Trade committee  I think the problem actually in Canada is not necessarily mobility but the lack of workers. That's a big problem that we face now, and for the commodities that are located far away from the city centres it's even tougher. I don't know what program we can involve regarding worker

International Trade committee  I would say two aspects come into play. The federal government offered a program called the expanding market opportunities program, and it should be renewed soon. It had two main components for market diversification: maintain access to export markets and develop value-added prod

International Trade committee  Okay.

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good afternoon. My name is Sylvain Labbé. I'm the president and CEO of the Quebec Wood Export Bureau, an association of manufacturers that focuses solely on export development in the softwood and hardwood lumber sectors, as well as in three other industry

Natural Resources committee  Regarding the performance, the procurement policy of the federal government has a key role here. If your procurement policy on federal buildings is funded by the federal government, it's time to put mandatory performance regulations on energy consumption or carbon, as it is done

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. In the world, the systems with more results are not the “wood first” policy or “please use wood”. The system is a performance-based carbon with mandatory fixed numbers. This pushed everyone to use wood without saying the word “wood”. Wood becomes the material of choic

Natural Resources committee  Ladies first, I think.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Simard. I will say this in English for the benefit of my friends from Canada. I think the idea here is not just to search for something, such as what should we do regarding the east and west? I think we have to do both: developing our export market and developin

Natural Resources committee  The program was started almost 20 years ago. I think it started in 2000. I was one of the founders of the program. I think that at the beginning the idea at the time was to expand into new markets, mainly into the emerging markets such as China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East

Natural Resources committee  I think there's not only the market, but that the strategy here should have a lot of different aspects. The first is the market development regarding the program of Canada Wood and EMO, but there's also a big effort that we need to make in innovation and new product development.

Natural Resources committee  Okay. There are two elements to achieve this: marketing and exporting. There is the program—

Natural Resources committee  Yes, thank you. The market development program needs to be enhanced to develop the value-added products industry in terms of exports. Currently, the focus is on overseas exports, and it is imperative that this program be redesigned to increase the export of value-added products