Natural Resources committee  Thanks, Mr. Zimmer, for the question. This is available in “The State of Canada's Forests” report that NRCan produces. There is quite a team of carbon modellers at the Canadian Forest Service. This is in line with the international science that we really need the managed forest

Natural Resources committee  I will do my best to get you some information in writing from a life-cycle analysis, which would compare the two. It might be best to provide that to you in writing.

Natural Resources committee  Derek mentioned in his opening remarks that pulp and paper mills have reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by 66% since 1990 and that has been done largely through a transition away from coal and more and more away from fossil fuels as well. Pulp and paper companies have taken

Natural Resources committee  Okay. We can share more of our brief, but FPAC, building on the work of scientists at NRCan, has built an additional 30-megatonne contribution of CO2 removals that we can make. That's through sustainable forest management and lots of different innovation within the managed fore

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon. Thank you so much for the invitation to be here. I will be starting, and then Derek will be speaking as well. Canada’s forest products sector is ready to play a key role in driving economic recovery, especially in rural and northern fore

Environment committee  Correct.

Environment committee  I think it would build on what I had mentioned earlier. The federal government has a lot of expertise in this area, considerable expertise across the Canadian Forest Service. A lot of the forest experts and fire experts are within many of those research stations across Canada, so

Environment committee  FPAC largely represents Crown-managed forests companies in Canada. We do work with some of the woodlot associations as well. We are working on mainstreaming some of these mitigation adaptation practices. From my perspective, in the regulatory context having forest management plan

Environment committee  That's great. Thank you. It's a good question. The industry has been concerned with it for some time. I worked in the industry about 15 years ago, and a slope stability expert was required on staff to do the engineering layout. In the face of climate change it needs to be furt

Environment committee  It's a good question My understanding is that if it's a certain size, it's the Crown's obligation, so the province is required to re-establish those—

Environment committee  Absolutely. The B.C. government has created the Forest Enhancement Society of BC. I know that forest companies, communities and the province are working through that society to re-establish areas post-fire, post-beetle, similar to what Rob was mentioning, to get some of those a

Environment committee  Okay. It's still early, but the objectives set out by Parks Canada were to mitigate the fire risk, and also a number of other values, as far as wildlife habitat, soil, maintenance of soil, coarse woody debris are concerned—a lot of technical aspects. It was, I would say, an el

Environment committee  Thank you. That's an excellent question. I think there is a bit of a paradigm shift that needs to happen. I completely support what Rob has mentioned about trees being the answer. Having productive, working, healthy forests will do a lot to mitigate catastrophic fire and consequ

Environment committee  Great. Can you hear me all right?

Environment committee  Good afternoon and thank you, Chair and members of the committee. My name is Kate Lindsay, and I'm the vice-president of sustainability. I'm pleased to be here to represent the Forest Products Association of Canada as part of your study on disaster mitigation and to provide cont