Natural Resources committee  I'm ignorant of the degree to which the implication of water levels is impacting the cost structure of shipping on the Great Lakes. I'm not an expert in that area. But it's a fascinating question.

Natural Resources committee  From FPAC's perspective, we wouldn't say to let the market decide; what we would say is to let economics prevail. A perfect example of that is that if you had a fund dedicated to biofuel generation and you allowed only biofuel generation, the forest industry would never be able

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the questions. It's great to see you again. The first thing I'd like to say is that in fact we are getting tremendous support for our innovation system not just from the federal government but from a number of provincial governments from coast to coast.

Natural Resources committee  —things have improved?

Natural Resources committee  I've already attempted to do that with my description of pulp and paper green transformation. There is a real gap to be addressed, and in fact there may be more than one. Over the continuum of time I think we have done an excellent job in the forest industry of figuring out ways

Natural Resources committee  We're doing many of the things together in partnership already. For example, market development work is a critical piece of the equation. Even if you have done the.... By the way, we consider bio-pathways as a bit of a framework for decision-making that helped weed out all of tho

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I very much appreciate the invitation to be here today. I'm here representing the forest products industry. We have members from coast to coast from 200 rural communities, and we represent 230,000 employees in the forest sector. Given the abundance of forests in Can

Transport committee  I feel I should probably clarify that we are supportive of all six of the recommendations that the Coalition of Rail Shippers has put forward. We are an active member of the Coalition of Rail Shippers, so we support all of its amendments. What I'm referring to is that we felt it

Transport committee  Representing a group of shippers that are very captive to the railways, we have actually been experiencing service challenges all the way through the piece. So I've already reported on that. It's interesting, but I didn't realize that we were all experiencing about half of what w

Transport committee  I guess the first point I'd like to re-emphasize is that these outlined obligations—and we outline a number of them and they have been referred to already by my colleagues—have already been agreed to by everybody, so we shouldn't be running for the hills on this one. I think this

Transport committee  Ideally, it would be nice not to have that hurdle in the front of this bill. It's great that you're raising that question. It was on our long list of asks. It didn't make it on our short list. Getting it into this bill is one of the most important questions that I think needs to

Transport committee  Yes, we have actually submitted them in order of our priorities. First is removing the word “operation”; second is the third party; and third is securing or locking down what the elements of a service agreement are. Those three are all interlinked, but that is the prioritization

Transport committee  Absolutely.

Transport committee  Yes, that's correct.

Transport committee  Well, I'm glad you've taken it as an optimistic view, but our perspective—sorry I've lost the thought. Repeat the question. Sorry.