Finance committee  I have hope we'll have an agreement in two-plus years, not sooner.

Finance committee  First, as a positive, I think the IFIT program has been extremely successful. It has stimulated significant regional development. Where we lack a lot on the innovation side is the incentives for biofuels, biomass usage, and other products, where there are incentives to bring the

Finance committee  In my opinion, it's become a very perverse process. What happened the last time is that as the tariffs hit, our sawmills got very efficient, and they had to find ways to compete. We became very efficient, and it's a bad thing for the American sawmills. If you take that off, they

Finance committee  Again, we in the industry—by nature I'm a forester—plan on a 100-year planning horizon, so I'd like to think that this is one of those bad spots, not a 100-year plan, but the 100-year still looks good. The industry has made a lot of changes. The great thing about our industry is

Finance committee  I was expecting that question. We're hooped. We've been through this dance before. I think we have a good idea of what to expect. We had one year of no action, and that expires next week, I believe. They're going to countervail us. They're going to do everything they can to sin

Finance committee  Hunker down.

Finance committee  There are a number of opportunities. The low-hanging fruit in the forest industry is energy. If we bring trees from the forest, then we convert them into lumber and into pulp and paper products. From that there's a waste. It's usually the bark, the outside of the tree. Traditiona

Finance committee  Yes. I could go on, but don't let me, or the chair will be waving at me again. Just about everything in this room can be replaced by a source from a tree. We can do that now with the technology, and that is where we see the industry going. We can make your cellphones sourced out

Finance committee  We've been focused, at the provincial level, with an interesting change after 44 years in this province. We have to learn a new government, and there are many discussions and opportunities that are created by that. There's a discussion on Friday on the clean tech side of what we

Finance committee  We are $1 billion-plus in annual revenue. We are $100 million in annual expenditures within Alberta. I believe that we are the fourth largest provincial forest sector in Canada.

Finance committee  There are a couple of aspects. There are pros and cons. On the cost side of it, as it's playing out in Alberta right now with the climate leadership plan, there'll be an impact on diesel fuel in particular, our ability to get the trees from the forest to the mill site, then subse

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak today, and thanks to Paul for reminding me that I'm not young anymore. It was the glasses that did it to me. Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries, Al-Pac, is the last greenfield pulp mill built in Canada. We directly and indirectly e