Natural Resources committee  Another sector in which the NRC is active is the production of biofuels that aren't produced from agricultural sources, but from waste bio-digestion. Household waste and municipal wastewater are of little value, but they actually form biomasses that can be converted into biofuels

Natural Resources committee  One of the challenges of this industry is there was a lot of investment in the upstream part of the industry, the genesis of the raw material, but very few investments into the downstream part, the application. Right now what we see is there's an interest in the downstream. Ford

Natural Resources committee  It's a good question.

Natural Resources committee  The sentence means the depletion of access to petroleum. Petroleum is becoming more expensive because of difficulty of access, so that's one dependency we can see for these products, that the costs will become higher because of the depletion of easily accessible sources of petrol

Natural Resources committee  Yes, you're right. I cannot say more about that. Actually, in here what we meant is certainly that there is a competition between products from a renewable source and petroleum products. The switch point between the two will be price-wise, when the petroleum price will be in co

Natural Resources committee  That is an excellent question. In recent years the NRC has established industrial research groups. We do not limit ourselves to Canadian partners, which allows us to go beyond our borders and encourage Canadian, American and international players to come together to work on issu

Natural Resources committee  That is an excellent question. I can attest our organization's stance in that regard. In our research centre in Boucherville, the biomaterials group is led by a woman. That group is also managed by Ms. Legros, who is here today. So we have a lot of women and I think that they ar

Natural Resources committee  I am not personally involved in the funding side. In hiring, we give priority of access to women. The research centre's advisory committee is made up of men and women equally. We encourage the presence of women in all NRC's decision-making processes and in its structure.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I am.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Bonjour. My name is Éric Baril. I'm the Acting Director General of the Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Centre of the National Research Council. I'm joined today by Nathalie Legros, the technology leader for polymer and composite products man