Natural Resources committee  Wood has to be considered early in the process, and must be shown to have been considered.

Natural Resources committee  I'm less apologetic. Yes, that's probably where it should go, but I'd like to say that wood production is the only structural material that is exclusively Canadian owned and operated. At the end of the day, we have no foreign ownership of this or multinationals. I don't think we

Natural Resources committee  There are a couple of impact levels that you're talking about. You're talking specifically about the operational level of these buildings, including what's in them. There is also the avoided carbon that's associated with the choice of materials. There are two parts, and when they

Natural Resources committee  There is nothing that beats demonstration. At the end of the day, for some of these buildings, for instance Brock Commons and more buildings in the future, the fact that we have government funding partners who are willing to step into that demonstration world is really important,

Natural Resources committee  Nordic is expanding into, they're shipping into the U.S. now. They are seriously looking at eastern Canada. It's coming because there is more demand, therefore, people are considering that entrepreneurial approach.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, bring it on. The more missionaries the better.

Natural Resources committee  The other thing too is that, in an area where we may have limited percentages of wood that can go into the U.S., the solution in that case is to grow the American market. The more you grow the American market, the more you can bring all sorts of product into it. That's what it's

Natural Resources committee  Yes, there are tools in place. To that concrete versus wood thing, there are new standards in place at the ASTM level that force the comparison of similar buildings. The standards are in place. They're always being upgraded or updated, but they're in place and the tools are incre

Natural Resources committee  I'm familiar with the Charte du bois. It had several layers. One layer was that you must consider wood equally in public works in purchasing policies. Another level was that there was a greenhouse gas metric. Another level was a requirement to create des grappes, these are inno

Natural Resources committee  I see wood product envy sometimes, particularly in the Atlantic provinces where they have 5% of the construction markets and through the Wood WORKS! program, we talk about building taller, different lay, more massive timber, but they don't produce it in those provinces. What's go

Natural Resources committee  I think, Jamie, you're agreeing that wood is safe, strong, sophisticated, and renewable.

Natural Resources committee  I get that, but when we sit around the codes table and try to make sure that wood is fairly represented in the codes, you wouldn't believe the opposition from other interests. Sometimes it's hard to get to a point where the playing field is equal, and you need a hammer to try and

Natural Resources committee  Until that happens I'd like to see Bill C-354.

Natural Resources committee  My only response is that if that's the case, let's not have the other terms in the real property practices. Let's make them neutral.

Natural Resources committee  For many years the Wood Council in our woodworks program has tried to discuss this point with real property practices to see what those practices are and to see if they're fair. It's not a very transparent opportunity. One of them, in the absence of an act like this or a policy