Natural Resources committee  Not with that specific program, but within the CREATE program there is a network of universities across Canada. There is the FIBRE network, which is a network of all the other networks concerned with wood products and with the environment related to the forests. It's a very activ

Natural Resources committee  If you want to see what's happening in that, google “FIBRE”, which is directed by Dr. van de Ven out of Montreal. Lots of people here are involved with it; it's right across the country.

Natural Resources committee  The answer is yes. Certainly from the academic point of view, the flexibility of the discovery grants, which are essentially seed grants to try what you like, is absolutely great. I'm the envy of all my colleagues south of the border.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, this works in some circumstances. You must have a receptor. You must know someone there who's keen and who trusts you. It takes time to build this up. The company's almost too big. It's difficult to move in any given direction. They're not going to risk their markets by wast

Natural Resources committee  Going back to your first question, it's hard to fight Procter & Gamble. It's no easy task. I think we have to take an end run around Procter & Gamble. There's a lifetime for all large corporations. Small countries like Finland manage to develop world-class industries fro

Natural Resources committee  I don't know how to answer quickly within one minute, but the answer is yes. There's competence in that area at universities, particularly at McMaster University in Hamilton, because there's a mixture of colloid chemists there and people who make nanocrystals, and they're very go

Natural Resources committee  The CREATE program of NSERC is actually encouraging, in giving the soft skills to graduate students and post-docs to pursue entrepreneurial activities. So the answer is it's being done. You just need to get as an MP on the case of the people. I'll give you a list of names.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes is the answer. Cellulose is a relatively abrasive polymer and it would work very well as both a stabilizer for lots of toothpaste and stuff like that, so there are many applications that are being looked at. At the moment, it's simply a question of w

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the opportunity to talk to the committee. As the committee is only too aware, for more than a decade it's been obvious that this is a time of radical change in the forest products industry. The effects on companies and workers in the industry, particularly in small