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Natural Resources committee Our role as FPInnovations is basically providing science and facts to support decision-makers, designers, and architects, and so on in terms of what they're going to do. We don't get into the policy and the amendments as such. I think I'll leave that to you, the experts, to do th
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members, for the invitation to present as a witness to this group. Our organization has presented a few times on other topics. We want to maintain our role as being kind of a third party, factual and science-based organization. I believe everybody has a
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee Actually, he'll start first.
March 1st, 2018Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee If I may add on the de-risking, I think you're putting your finger on exactly some of the right issues and where additional funding will be needed. We need to realize that when we look at investment and de-risking, we need to look at the process, and the products, and we need to
November 22nd, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee The market, unfortunately—
November 22nd, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee That's it exactly—and fast-tracking the process.
November 22nd, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee It's one tonne of CO2. Basically, on average, every time you use a cubic metre of wood in a building, it sequesters one tonne of CO2 overall. We're doing various studies for various provinces and we figure that sequestration of CO2 in buildings, in wood, is one of the best kind
November 22nd, 2017Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel
Natural Resources committee If I may add something here, you talk about the role of technology and innovation in transformation. Basically transformation takes time and energy and investment for the long term. It's important to recognize that, in the past, we were pushing technology and now we're trying to
February 17th, 2015Committee meeting
Jean-Pierre Martel