Environment committee  We have invested about $200 million in processing bioproducts. They may not be on the market yet, but we are in the process of building plants. There have been reductions at the plants. We started with the easiest targets. I would like to point out, with regard to the next step,

Environment committee  We are hoping for a 2020 timeline for the National Building Code.

Environment committee  We are 14 months from that date, but we expect that, in 2020, the National Building Code will allow us to build up to 12 floors in Canada. That will be a big change.

Environment committee  There's tremendous opportunity. On that one we're leading, I think, with the European countries. Fibre insulation, for example, is a huge, huge opportunity.

Environment committee  Exactly. Number two, for example, is that even on the OSB now we're seeing two conversions in Canada. Swan River is one example, and there's another one in B.C. The old OSB now is called the siding business. This lasts 50 years. It's just a panel. You can paint it. It's on the o

Environment committee  The devil is in the details, but from what we heard in the fall economic statement, they will be helpful. We are seriously looking into the tax writeoff on clean energy as well as the one on machinery. I can't discredit all of the government support in the last ten years relating

Environment committee  I think we're 75% of the way there. One of the gaps I'm seeing is in bioproducts and biomaterials. We're missing a huge opportunity to incentivize that kind of stuff. It's only on biofuels. Number two is the value chain. The support has been there. We can make the sugars. I tota

Environment committee  Personally, I think that on the bioenergy side there's been a lot of recent policy that will make a huge impact. Carbon pricing is one of them. There's another clean fuel standard, including one, the renewable energy, in British Columbia, that will make another one. I would cha

Environment committee  You're right that we're not opposed to pricing carbon, but I just want to be clear that it needs to come with consideration for international trade-exposed industries.

Environment committee  For the current intent, I would say yes, but we're still waiting for final details that should be released, I'm assuming, before January 1, 2019.

Environment committee  I will be honest with you, there are two possibilities. This transition will be made, but it must be accelerated. The perfect example would be to have government assistance to open up markets, such as high-rise buildings. Then there are provincial policies related to forest man

Environment committee  It will just be me, but it will be bilingual. I'll be switching between French and English throughout the opening remarks.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Copies of my remarks have been made available to the clerk if you need them after. My name is Robert Larocque and I am here today with my colleagues Kate Lindsay, our vice president of sustainability and environmental partnershi

Natural Resources committee  I don't know the exact details of everything. Maybe some of my colleagues in Quebec know about the study and might be more expert than I am on it, but I do know that engineered wood products are the new trend, for sure. We can build wood that is as strong. It's also quicker to m

Natural Resources committee  I completely agree.