Natural Resources committee  If we do tall wood buildings, probably by 2030 it will be the equivalent of all of our sector's emissions today. It's six to 10 million tonnes of carbon. We emit six million tonnes as a sector. If we shut everybody down, we're better off to build tall wood buildings.

Natural Resources committee  The bio-pathways report was very critical—and FPInnovations was the lead on the findings—but what helped us out was understanding the true value from the forest sector. I think we've completed that. I think we know mostly what we can make. Again, that work, though, was done speci

Natural Resources committee  It's very efficient. We like the way it's applied. We like the criteria. In my mind, it's one of the best programs that's been delivered in the last 10 years to help our sector out with capital investment and benefits to Canadians. It's in communities and jobs at the time of inst

Natural Resources committee  I just want to add from a technical perspective that I completely agree, but also from a policy perspective, Europe is ahead of us. In Canada, there's some wood procurement policy, if you want, but we're working with the federal government to have some kind of low-carbon policy t

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. Our number one concern is on climate change impact on the forests. It's the trees. We also deal with the pine beetle out west. Initially we were able to salvage some of the trees that were impacted by pests. Now we're seeing the total effect on the trees that were rep

Natural Resources committee  Very quickly, when there is a trade dispute like the one we're seeing, and we have to put 20% to 25% of tariffs on the side, that's money that the industry cannot pass over. We've been lucky so far that the price of wood in the United States has increased, but that also means it'

Natural Resources committee  Yes. The supercluster was one that was the full-value chain. The forestry and agricultural industries were making the biomaterial, and then the secondary value chain, Air Canada, Esso, or Nestlé, were taking on the products. It was worth about $800 million of investment in the ne

Natural Resources committee  I think you're right. During the economic crisis of 2008 to 2010 we saw a lot of the changes that happened to our sector, and we lost about a third of the sector. The electronic age also came around. The pulping sector and the lumber side outside of trade disputes is doing well.

Natural Resources committee  That's in total revenue.

Natural Resources committee  They're both accurate. It's just a different way of looking at the economic impacts. One is based on gross domestic product, which is the $23 billion. Sixty-seven billion dollars is also from Stats Canada, and it's the total revenue of the products made in 2016. It's a different

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. I have provided copies of my remarks around the table if you need them. My opening remarks will be bilingual, so I'll be flipping back and forth from French to English if that's okay. My name is Robert Larocque, and I am the se

Environment committee  I do believe that the risk-based approach is working well. I understand that bioaccumulation is something that needs to be looked at.

Environment committee  Without knowing exactly what that means, if it could be improved, yes.

Environment committee  Exactly.

Environment committee  Yes, sure. One of the latest examples we have was the latest multi-sector air pollutant regulation that came out, where some, for example, testing done under the provincial government may not be accepted under federal regulation, so now we're going to have to go back and retest,