Natural Resources committee  —and then use those residues as a subset of diversification.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Copies of my remarks are available for committee members if you wish to have them. My name is Robert Larocque, and I am the senior vice-president at the Forest Products Association of Canada. I'm very pleased to be here today to

Natural Resources committee  I'll just give an example. Jet fuel is perfect. We think we can make it. We just need some support if we work on a project between our company and Air Canada for testing that product in their jets and engines. Another one is locomotive. We need to work with CN and CP, but it take

Natural Resources committee  A government program was announced for a supercluster initiative. They received more than 50 applications. Now I think there are nine, and we were not selected for the next wave. When the government announced it, only four or five were to be selected. We have been in contact wi

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  The lumber prices are high, but 20% is going to countervailing duties to the United States, so in my mind, the lumber prices are the same as they were about 18 months ago. We're investing as we typically would have done 18 months ago. We have seen energy projects, prefabricated w

Natural Resources committee  It's not helping us accelerate our transformation. Let me put it that way.

Natural Resources committee  Okay, you start from a technical perspective and then I'll finish off.

Natural Resources committee  That's a funding support there. A LEAF program, for example, that we had in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 really helped us out in China—a demonstration project. That's the kind of demonstration funding that would be great if we did get together to build a car that is half made of wo

Natural Resources committee  When you build your building right now all the concepts that the government is working on...net zero energy, for example, is just the energy that you use to heat it using natural gas or solar panels or whatever. What we want is when you're looking at building a 20 storey buildin

Natural Resources committee  That's done in Europe, in Austria. Germany is very close to it. Companies are reporting on it. In order to access government funding, you need to say what the carbon impact is of your proposed building.

Natural Resources committee  It's not only the building part of it that's important. The Government of Canada does build buildings, but it's also there are billions of dollars in infrastructure. I think there were $12 billion to $15 billion coming in on infrastructure that go to the provinces. It would be ni

Natural Resources committee  Yes. There's the bridge that Jean-Pierre was talking about. We have a perfect project for communities. I think it's London that wants to go to completely zero energy, but unfortunately they can't build a 106 storey building. Those are some examples of where the federal governme

Natural Resources committee  Also, let's not forget on cost, you include the price of carbon, which we are in this world.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, roughly. It's in the presentation. For every cubic metre of wood it's one tonne of carbon.