Natural Resources committee  I'm going to answer in English so my colleagues can expand on what I've said, or correct me if need be. Listen, what if we were always asking them why they don't build with wood when they do a public building, and check that first. The alternative will always be positive from a

Natural Resources committee  We need government funding for innovation programs. We need to take a deeper look and understand how much funding is needed. Mr. Samray mentioned converting a mill into a kraft pulp mill. That's not something that costs $20 million or even $50 million. A kraft pulp mill costs be

Natural Resources committee  There are two ways. First and foremost, the shift towards more basic translational research requires meaningful sustained funding for all of the great ideas. Here's a very specific example. Research support or funding is always associated with short-term contracts, lasting one,

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. My presentation will be in English, but first let me say a few words in French. Thank you for this opportunity to share our views as part of your comparative study. I am proud to be here with my partners in the forest industry. It's a

Natural Resources committee  We are working hard on the National Building Code to get all of those performance elements of the code in everywhere. We need continuous help from the government to support our removing all of the roadblocks for wood to penetrate the construction industry, by pushing those perfor

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. As I said earlier, we need chemical engineers and organic chemists in several areas of expertise that currently exist in the oil sector. Talent must be transferred from the oil industry to the bioeconomy. For some jobs, this will be more difficult. However, these two

Natural Resources committee  Derek will probably say a bit of the same thing that I will. Regulation has an extremely important role. Policy, I will say, is fundamental moving forward. When you're trying to change the equilibrium in the economy to move from one type to the other to introduce more products,

Natural Resources committee  Thank you.

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely, the case of British Columbia is challenging with regard to the access to fibre and all the natural calamities that didn't help with the amount of fibre that is available. It's interesting to look today at British Columbia and the efforts of Canfor, which has dabbled

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. We're involved in all of the RNG projects we can be. We have a team in B.C., in Vancouver, actually, working on this. As well, we have one in eastern Canada, more on the liquid fuel side, with the La Tuque team. There is a lot to do there. To go back to your first qu

Natural Resources committee  The most important step, as we proposed today for the budget consultations, is to help the industry by funding activities that will enable it to scale up. This raises the issue of how to reduce the risks associated with capital investments. As I said earlier, I could conduct a

Natural Resources committee  I think there are two things that are really important in making it real at some point. I'm a scientist. I love science. I can do science every day. But making the bioeconomy real is about taking one, two, or three things and really focusing on pushing them through commercializat

Natural Resources committee  The benefit would simply be to rank higher in the value chain. If we don't move higher, our pulp or fibre will remain in demand in all the markets, since our forest is exceptional given its life cycles. Our forest's carbon value is phenomenal because this value is very renewable.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, absolutely. In terms of progress we have made to this point, we have found the recipe to make the filtration layer. We, like every Canadian research institution, are struggling with the actual tests and certification, as there is a lot of variation that creates a lot of dis

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. If you look at the different sources of funding that my organization or the industry bet on in terms of transforming the industry, the TT program, the transformative technologies program, is the bedrock of everything. That's where we explore each technology that can t