Natural Resources committee  One of the great things about this nation is that we have these strong green credentials. I think the work that the government does for “Brand Canada” is wonderful. We should continue to get the message out to our markets on green credentials for the industry and how strong we ar

Natural Resources committee  There is another issue I'm highly passionate about. We've done some wonderful things. I don't know, for example, if you're familiar with Women in Wood or Women for Nature. Just be forewarned, gentlemen, the women in forestry are getting themselves together. Championing, demonstr

Natural Resources committee  It is a really good question. This is all a gut reaction, but more could be done there. I'm just not sure who's doing it, who has done it, or if we need to look at it.

Natural Resources committee  Actually, I just had this experience two days ago of having assembled—again, I'm going to go back to my steel example, as it's the freshest in my mind—the steel industry; the forest industry; and a third industry, the clean-tech industry, to talk about this opportunity that I was

Natural Resources committee  I have one more comment and I'm a little bit scared to raise it, namely the ability of the funding programs to fit together and to make sure that any gaps in funding mechanisms in, for example, a province be addressed. I don't think there's a province with an IFIT type of program

Natural Resources committee  There's so many more things, it isn't fair.

Natural Resources committee  I'll start. I'm not going to be able to comment on the harvest study, although I am very curious and interested in perhaps getting more information on that myself; that would be great. As we discussed, it's not only an imperative for the good of Canadians to be sustainably mana

Natural Resources committee  The fact that the individual governments have created detailed strategies for bringing the bioeconomy to fruition suggests it's not just a competition among businesses, but also among governments. This speaks to my call for action, which I like to give everywhere I can, that we n

Natural Resources committee  Is it possible to add to that response?

Natural Resources committee  My experience is with the steel sector, where we're trying to create new supply chains to an existing industry that needs fibre. The steel industry tends to be in southern and northern Ontario, so we're looking at the fibre basket in northern Ontario and how we can get it to the

Natural Resources committee  Good morning. Thank you very much. I'm honoured to be back. Thank you very much for requesting a return visit so we can deepen our discussion on an issue I care about very deeply. As I mentioned to you the last time I was here, my name is Catherine Cobden. I'm the president of

Natural Resources committee  I couldn't have said it any better, Peter. Well done.

Natural Resources committee  May I just make one point, though, because this has come up a few times around the table, and I really want to stress this. It gets to Michael's point about the industry not being ready. Who he means by that is the building industry, and that points to the same problem that Peter

Natural Resources committee  I absolutely am, actually. We have a lot of checks and balances in the Canadian forest management system. I'm not saying we don't need to continue to evolve, and I'm also not saying that we haven't evolved. We have done a tremendous amount of ongoing improvement in how we do for

Natural Resources committee  We have to keep pace with the changes that are happening. I don't know if I would characterize it as over or under, as much as we need to keep pace. If we're going to be doing all of this transformation, we need to make sure that we keep pace with that so we do not erode the foun