International Trade committee  Yes, I can.

International Trade committee  The industry and government—DFAIT and other agencies in our own government right now—have considerable concern about this. Japan has a multi-pronged incentive or program right now to push forward the domestic forest sector and essentially, to substitute imports. They're doing it

International Trade committee  Interestingly, this work that Canada Wood Group has been doing, which has been supported by the federal government and the provinces—and it's actually been supported since about 1999, so under different governments—has been pushing to try to create demand for value-added products

International Trade committee  What I was trying to get at was that there's a movement in many countries around the world now to use wood in a way that is part of an environmental solution in building and other areas. I think anything we can do to highlight the fact that Canada's wood products come from a sust

International Trade committee  Well, you could be part of it through any discussion on the TPP, but we have examples right now, say in China, where the federal government is working with MOHURD, China's ministry of construction, to position wood as a green building material to help China with some of its envir

International Trade committee  No. Sorry, I apologize that you don't have my remarks.

International Trade committee  I think what I may have said is that some TPP nations don't look to us at this stage like they have tremendous potential, for different reasons. They may have their own wood product industries, they may not use wood a lot, etc. But I think our sectors, broadly, would see benefit

International Trade committee  Yes, absolutely. We were hammered in the downturn in 2006-07, where we were over-leveraged in the U.S. market. Fortunately, there had been some work done starting in the late 1990s and early 2000s to buy companies—by groups like Canada Wood—to try to get our specifications and ge

International Trade committee  Yes. I think we would be looking at the opportunities that our negotiators could leverage. But also if we weren't in the game and were being left out in terms of non-tariff barrier agreements and so on, it could badly impact us, I think.

International Trade committee  Well, certainly tariffs and things like that should be minimized.

International Trade committee  Yes, standards. Those can all be potential barriers to value-added products. There are phytosanitary issues as well.

International Trade committee  Well, you mentioned specific research on potential competitive nations, and so on. Again, I think you'd be better advised to talk to people familiar with the value-added sector.

International Trade committee  We have seen significant job creation. If you look at some of the aspiring nations like China, it was estimated that about 20 mills kept running through the downturn, representing many hundreds of jobs as a result of that 19% of shipments that I talked about that are flowing into

International Trade committee  Yes. I'm not aware of any sort of projections.

International Trade committee  That's a good point. When I set out to prepare some remarks, I went on the Internet. I looked at material available from the federal government. I even looked at Wikipedia, things like that. Those were the sources I used. I probably missed useful sources. I even looked at infor