Natural Resources committee  I have a few examples. One is that the Government of Ontario has taken some of the, I think, $2 billion now that they've raised through cap and trade and directed it to the Ontario Centres of Excellence, which has a program called TargetGHG that is focused on accelerating innovat

Natural Resources committee  There are two impacts. One is the direct market impact in terms of projects that may switch over to wood. I can't say we've seen an enormous amount of that happening yet, but it's still pretty early, despite the fact that this policy has been around for a while. Our other speaker

Natural Resources committee  I think you're referring to insulated concrete forms, which are a highly energy-efficient and very durable form of construction. In particular, as there is more emphasis on developing high-efficiency buildings, net-zero buildings, we're seeing more and more interest in that concr

Natural Resources committee  Thank you.

Natural Resources committee  The only recent examples of government funding for the cement industry would be in the context of the Ontario cap-and-trade system where some of the auction revenue has been recycled to support our transition to lower carbon fuels. A similar program exists in British Columbia. To

Natural Resources committee  Not that I'm aware of, no.

Natural Resources committee  There are research grants that flow through universities to study things like resilience, new products like high-performance concrete.... What am I missing?

Natural Resources committee  Yes, there is research doing life-cycle assessments around the carbon benefits of different lower-carbon fuels, for example.

Natural Resources committee  No.

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  We are in the process of some significant regulatory developments provincially and federally on the issue of climate change, carbon pricing being the centrepiece of those efforts. There are others, for example the clean fuel standard that's being developed right now at the federa

Natural Resources committee  I don't know the methodologies that were used to calculate that number. As I said, it's a study that was done by the Bureau of Land Management, which tried to capture some of these uncertainties that exist in the life-cycle assessments around wood products, in particular trying t

Natural Resources committee  I think we would probably agree that there absolutely is a role. As I think the Athena Institute would agree, there is a lot of work to be done on life-cycle inventory data. Other jurisdictions have done a good job of shoring up their national life-cycle inventory data in a way t

Natural Resources committee  It's not our math. It's from the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon, which did the study.

Natural Resources committee  I'll table the study, yes.