Finance committee  I mentioned FIBRE. Actually, a significant portion of the FIBRE group is dedicated to this very question. In addition there is governmental in-house research going on through the Canadian Forest Service. It's very critical. I couldn't agree with you more. If I glossed over it,

Finance committee  We just stay very vigilant in protecting our softwood lumber industry from trade barriers that come out of nowhere—or actually in some cases they may or may not. But the idea is that we need to stay quite vigilant in ensuring that others are not using it in a protectionist way fo

Finance committee  Yes. I'm trying to remember the metrics I've got. I have several different metrics that I can provide to the committee, but yes, definitely.

Finance committee  Yes, I will. Absolutely, for sure.

Finance committee  I'd be happy to do that.

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. Let me just say that the whole essence of our transformation agenda is to extract more value from every tree we harvest. Now, there has been a bit of a unique situation with the mountain pine beetle scenario in British Columbia and raw log exports, but that sho

Finance committee  Listen, this is a tremendous area of effort, and we are so grateful. What we've managed to accomplish together in partnership is that basically the forest industry is now Canada's largest exporter to China. Our competitive jurisdictions are looking at the successes that we've bla

Finance committee  Yes, sorry about the acronym. FIBRE is a collective of university professors from across the country. Essentially they are using NSERC funding—actually it's multi-council funding—to support the industry's transformation agenda through the pure R and D phase. If you look it as

Finance committee  So yes, they have to bring in industry partners, and they in fact want to do, and need to do, more. I note that NSERC has made some additional changes in this regard. Listen, we're not looking for things that don't require industry commitment. We truly believe that a sector-base

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. FPAC has made an official submission, so I'll keep my comments brief. I'll just remind you that the forest industry in Canada is an extremely important part of our rural economy. We are a global player that exports to over 187 nations, but we ar

Natural Resources committee  That was for the pulp and paper green transformation program. On an annual basis, it's the equivalent of taking 150,000 automobiles off the road.

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  It would be as long as these boilers operate.

Natural Resources committee  Can I just say for the record that FPAC is member companies only, so it's only private sector money from companies. But partnerships with NAFA should be something we both pursue following this discussion.

Natural Resources committee  My budget is nowhere near that—