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International Trade committee What you find is that for those kinds of products, cabinets, windows, and those kinds of things, it's better to do that manufacturing closer to the customer. We're not very close to the Italians, for instance, so what we do is build our business around—
February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Rick Jeffery
International Trade committee Certainly for our plywood producers this will be very, very good news, because right now they pay I think a 10% tariff, which prices them out of the market. We have one full-blown plywood producer on the coast as well as a couple of veneer producers who produce the veneer for ply
February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Rick Jeffery
International Trade committee Yes, sure. The TPP is in full swing. There are three issues in TPP that are of concern to the forest products industry. The first one is that we want to ensure that the provisions in NAFTA, especially around chapter 19, continue to be enforced—i.e., they don't get negotiated aw
February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Rick Jeffery
International Trade committee Yes. The thing about the value-added industry on the coast of British Columbia is that it's very commercially driven. When we undertook our value-added study, we were very interested to see the breadth of the industry on the coast. There are over 160 firms. We surveyed a hundred
February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Rick Jeffery
International Trade committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Susan is my director of communications, so she has come here to try to keep me in line. Thanks for inviting us here today to talk about this very important topic. We look forward to the questions and answers afterwards. I'd like to start by offering our
February 3rd, 2014Committee meeting
Rick Jeffery
Government Operations committee I don't actually agree with your assessment there, to tell you the truth. I'll lead you to Japan; the Japan national government just passed a wood first policy. It is very similar to what you're being asked to consider here. B.C. has passed—
October 21st, 2010Committee meeting
Rick Jeffery
Government Operations committee The forest industry doesn't share your view on that. We believe this bill doesn't tell you that you have to use wood; it levels the playing field.
October 21st, 2010Committee meeting
Rick Jeffery
Government Operations committee Sure. Those two buildings show that modern building applications, innovations, and high-tech technology transfers can be used. And what are those buildings made of? Those buildings are made of wood, steel, and concrete. They're hybrid. This isn't an “us versus them” discussio
October 21st, 2010Committee meeting
Rick Jeffery
Government Operations committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for accommodating us out here on the west coast via video conference. It certainly helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions in that I didn't have to fly to Ottawa. I'm Rick Jeffery, president and CEO of Coast Forest Products Association. We represe
October 21st, 2010Committee meeting
Rick Jeffery
Government Operations committee Yes indeed, I can hear you.
October 21st, 2010Committee meeting
Rick Jeffery