Natural Resources committee  I'll start there maybe. Maybe you touched on this, Antoine. One of the things that we see is that the product development process involves a fair level of collaboration and business development. I would say it's about support for advancing commercial readiness levels. When I lo

Natural Resources committee  I'll add that one of the things we saw in exploration is that in Minnesota they have created a program that pays production incentives for production of biochemicals from a cellulosic base—so, wood fibre. It's a fairly substantial production incentive when you look at the price o

Natural Resources committee  For the details on that, I can ask the supercluster folks to provide that for me. My understanding was that $200 million in total projects was identified. I'm not sure if that was $200 million of industrial investment or $200 million in total, with some portion of it industrial i

Natural Resources committee  I don't have a whole lot to add. That was very well said, Catherine. I would say I don't profess to be an expert on caribou or wildlife management issues—

Natural Resources committee  —in B.C. or the prairie provinces. I will say there's a lot of misunderstanding about the forest industry, and I have no reason to think this is any different across the country. I've worked across the country, but my specific knowledge being from Atlantic Canada, I would say th

Natural Resources committee  There's a disconnect between the public perception and what is actually happening on the ground in the forest industry that I think is very important for the industry to try to correct. It's not a trivial task. There are challenges in communicating those messages, but I think it'

Natural Resources committee  There are a number of answers to that question. I would say I'm at risk of maybe getting at cross-purposes with some of my customers here, but I'll give you my honest opinion. We can look at the utilization rate of logging equipment across the country—and FPInnovations has done t

Natural Resources committee  No, no, it's all right.

Natural Resources committee  Are you referring to the biodesign supercluster?

Natural Resources committee  A biodesign cluster still exists, by the way. It was an initiative of FPAC; Bioindustrial Innovation Canada, which is located in Sarnia and has done a good job of building a bioeconomy complex there, I would say; Gnome Canada; and FPinnovations. The idea was that they brought tog

Natural Resources committee  That's a really hard question. If I think about what the roadblocks are, and I look back into the forest fibre supply chain, particularly with the logging sector, I don't think we have focused on improving productivity as much as we can. I think FPInnovations are very good at th

Natural Resources committee  That's a great question. I think my best answer to that is the following. Of course we work with a number of companies that are in the biomaterial space, and we help them in engaging with their markets and customers that play in those markets. That's an important piece of the in

Natural Resources committee  Excellent. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for this opportunity to offer our thoughts on the Canadian forest industry and bioeconomy. I was explaining to Richard that it's my first time here, and it's quite an honour, if a bit of a daunting one, so thank you.

Natural Resources committee  Luckily I'm close to the door, so if I need to...

Natural Resources committee  Let me start by telling you a bit about BioApplied. We're a small consulting firm. Catherine said “boutique”, and I think that's an excellent way to describe us as well. We were formed in 2013 and our objective is supporting innovation in renewable resource sectors to help expand