Industry committee  We are a large industry. We've been very competitive and ingenious throughout our history. We have abundant natural forest resources in Canada. As my colleague said, it would be a lost opportunity if we weren't maximizing the economic value, as well as all the other social values

Industry committee  I think that's a long story. Quite honestly, I don't have a full answer for you today. Going forward on some of the new opportunities, there is a lot of activity happening in Canada with technology developers that might use some equipment that's produced elsewhere, but some of

Industry committee  I'm not sure if I understand. Our companies are working quite aggressively to try and expand and diversify their product suites to produce—

Industry committee  Well, no, it's all about what we can do beyond the traditional products. Can we produce more dissolving pulp? There are two mills in New Brunswick involved in the production of rayon to compete with cotton. There's that type of thing. There are bolt-on technologies to extract l

Industry committee  Yes, it's true that a lot of the more traditional heavy equipment suppliers are no longer in Canada. Twenty years ago we used to be leaders in that space, but we lost that edge. A lot of the equipment does come from boilers from the U.S. or other equipment from Scandinavian count

Industry committee  Eight.

Industry committee  Yes. FPInnovations, which I referred to, is our research institute. There's the Canadian Mining Innovation Council, which is not exactly the counterpart of FPInnovations, but I know that they have been talking to each other. So those association or cluster level dialogues and d

Industry committee  Probably in the innovation agenda that was mentioned in the budget—

Industry committee  —and how it is geared to support networks and clusters. There are also geographic clusters: the Bio-Mile in Drayton Valley, Alberta, or the biochemical cluster in Sarnia-Lambton, those types of things.

Industry committee  Well, when we're trying to adopt a brand new, unproven technology, in taking it from demo scale to commercial scale, there's a lot of risk of failure involved, and financiers don't like that. They charge a huge premium if they're even willing to touch it, so government financial

Industry committee  On the commercialization, again, continuing to help de-risk the commercialization through a granting program has been very successful. I'm happy to talk more about that going forward. Government has been helping to develop markets in China for building materials or elsewhere; kee

Industry committee  Quite simply, they have resulted in some new first-in-Canada and first-in-the-world technologies being adopted by some forest companies, whether they be smaller ones or larger, putting Canada in that first-mover-advantage space. The NCC, the cellulose filaments, the Structurlam-t

Industry committee  We look forward to discussing with the minister his forest sector innovation strategy that was mentioned in the budget. In fact, he'll be meeting our board of directors Thursday morning.

Industry committee  Maybe I can make just a quick comment about the green credentials and the importance of how governments build into that. As you know, we operate in public forest lands owned by the provinces. They have regulations on how we manage the forest. We've commissioned studies that hav

Industry committee  We have been reaching out to many universities and colleges through FPInnovations, our national research institute. They've been working with some of the universities as well. One of the examples I like to use is Lakehead University. Our researcher there is looking at turning lig