International Trade committee  There are a variety of things you need to do, though. We build with wood and we have a history of building with wood, but in some markets it's showing people how to use wood. It's dealing with architects, designers, engineers, etc., and getting acceptance of wood as a building pr

International Trade committee  Sure. For those of you who are not from British Columbia, we've had a large infestation of the mountain pine beetle that peaked in the 2004-2005 time frame. That timber is getting to the end of its useful life. We've been spending a lot of time moving that wood out as quickly as

International Trade committee  No, I wouldn't say that. We've had some changes in ownership. There was a period of consolidation in the late 1990s and into the 2000s. There was quite a bit of consolidation. From time to time, assets do change hands, but in the last couple of years there has not been an exodus

International Trade committee  I might just add to that. This is a global business. To have all your assets in one jurisdiction is not normal in a business that competes globally. I know people are saying it's all different and this is really changing; I think businesses that operate in a global environment

International Trade committee  I'll start with your question on jobs. I think obviously if we move into a world where we are making significant deposits, doing that places a financial burden on all the companies that are operating within Canada right across the country. If they're paying countervailing dutie

International Trade committee  Obviously, we have this 100-day period and we think we should be working very hard towards a new agreement. It might be a modernized agreement, as Duncan has said. Certainly the 2006 agreement—the basic structure of the agreement, the optionality of the agreement, having province

International Trade committee  British Columbia in particular has been doing a lot of work, as I mentioned, to grow our markets, and a particularly big success story is what we have been able to do in Asia. If we had not been able to build those markets, in the post-2008 world it would have been even much more

International Trade committee  That would be me. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning. My name is Susan Yurkovich. I'm really pleased to be here today on behalf of the B.C. Lumber Trade Council. Duncan is the co-chair of the B.C. Lumber Trade Council, which is an organization that was established to advocate