Natural Resources committee  [Technical difficulty—Editor] ...which principle it is, but there are many different processes in development right now in the world. We're heading into an area that is really important, which is the durability of the product and the protection in the product. To also have streng

Natural Resources committee  Yes, exactly. I'm part of the group. We call ourselves the Quebec border mills. We had a special condition, a special statute, over the last four disputes. Yes, due to the location of the forests in Maine—especially northern Maine, northern New Hampshire, and northern New York: t

Natural Resources committee  Yes, you're right, everywhere we are having difficulty. In fact, in New Brunswick, in different regions of Quebec, and even in the United States we have some difficulty with labour. Everywhere in the regions we have less and less labour available, and we need to attract new peopl

Natural Resources committee  That's it.

Natural Resources committee  I will jump in. There is always something. We have been doing research on reforestation now for just about 50 years. That's not a long history of scientific knowledge. I would bring in here the need to know more about the properties of the trees that we are planting. That's some

Natural Resources committee  Okay. That's no problem. The by-products are woodchips, sawdust, shavings and bark, but the major challenge is with the wood chip market. We have to come up with uses quickly and find high-volume users as a replacement for pulp and paper manufacturers, whose products are disappe

Natural Resources committee  Good morning. I will give my presentation in French. My name is Charles Tardif. I am a forestry engineer, and Vice-President, Corporate Development and Procurement, with Maibec Inc. First, may I thank you for your invitation to appear before your committee in order to describe

Natural Resources committee  Do I have to start over, or do I continue? This presentation contains no statistical or economic analyses. It is intended instead to communicate the facts as we experience them in our company. First, what is Maibec? Maibec has been in operation for more than 70 years. It is a

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