Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I have heard of Carbon Engineering. I will admit that our programming is built upon deployment. When I say “deployment”, if diesel generation has done anything, it's being durable. In northern communities, where it's cold and where that's their only power source and heating sourc

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I completely agree with you. We have a scope of different initiatives that are willing to invest in both pilot and demo-scale initiatives, and look at other clean energy alternatives. For the CERRC program, we're going with durable solutions, so that communities can keep the ligh

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We just launched the program. We rolled out some of our first projects in Gitxsan in the fall. In that circumstance, it was putting a boiler system on an arena, and now they have more ambitious plans.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We partnered with ISC prior to launching the CERRC program on the biomass side. We had a biomass north program, and then we also developed a biomass program, what we call south of 60°. It has a range of activities. We've done fuel stove switching to more efficient stoves, which h

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yellowknife is a very interesting community. If you ever have an opportunity to do a tour in Yellowknife, you'll find a number of biomass boilers attached to various public buildings, not unlike what you'd see in communities in P.E.I. There are opportunities to have renewable sol

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's not my field but I'd be happy to get back to you on that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. Maybe I could focus on what we're doing in the off-diesel space. Under our clean energy for rural and remote communities, there's a $220-million program over five years that has been created to really address our Paris climate change targets. Embedde

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm responsible for two programs. One is the indigenous forestry initiative, and also the biomass piece of the CERRC program. The Canadian Forest Service has five regional centres. We've empowered those centres and built the capacity to have a regional liaison office service that

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Haida Gwaii is a very interesting example where the province and that first nation worked together collectively to build, manage and develop the forest industry. It is a model for other regions.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. My name is John Kozij. I'm the DG of trade, economics and industry branch at Natural Resources Canada, with the Canadian Forest Service. Our numbers were $12.3 million, actually. If you have $16 million, then it must be as a result of EPB, I imagine, as well as combi

Government Operations committee  My understanding is the $12.3 million for our softwood lumbar secretariat has passed the Treasury Board process.

Natural Resources committee  I talked about Costco.There are a couple of parts to this. In the first part, this is a new material. I'm an economist by training, and John Maynard Keynes had a great quote, “When I receive new information, I alter my conclusions.” The cheeky part of that quote was, “What do you

Natural Resources committee  I think what we've seen from the code changes in 2015 around mid-rise construction is significant increase across the board in traditional stick frame construction up to six storeys. I think we'll continue to see that growth. As I mentioned, that growth has largely come in Britis

Natural Resources committee  I think they can be classed into three large areas. One would be around culture and being able to change the culture of wood in Canada and have a greater acceptance of using wood in different applications, especially with the realization that we have new products on the market t

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My last name is pronounced “cozy”, so think about being comfortable or cozy by a biomass fire. I think Mr. Cannings read my speaking points last night, so I hope this is incremental and not just duplicative. I also want to introduce my colleague Mohammad