Natural Resources committee  Sure, and thank you for the question. We work closely with the National Research Council in a number of different ways to support building codes and standards. We've done partnerships in the past with them around fire ratings for mass timber and have worked closely with them as

Natural Resources committee  In terms of a complete landscape perspective, no, we haven't gotten into that kind of detail.

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, we've signed just over 60 contribution agreements with a number of different communities under the recent indigenous forestry initiative. Again, a lot of the benefits we're realizing through these contribution agreements are around the training of community members to

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, the softwood lumber action plan had allocated $867 million in support for workers, as well as for businesses. As for the $600 million that was provided through Export Development Canada as well as Business Development Canada, what we've indicated is that EDC and BDC h

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, that question would likely be best answered by Export Development Canada or Business Development Canada. Those investments and how they support forest companies are commercially sensitive, and so it would be best for them to provide that answer.

Natural Resources committee  My understanding is they would have to come through the federal process, through Global Affairs Canada.

Natural Resources committee  I don't have the latest information on what Public Works and Procurement Canada is doing, so I would refer the question to them. However, there are a number of activities under way within the Canadian Forest Service in which we're looking to work with industry and stakeholders to

Natural Resources committee  Our colleagues at Global Affairs Canada are responsible for export control of raw logs from Crown lands, so they would be best positioned to respond to that question and to speak to how those efforts are harmonized with practices on provincial lands.

Natural Resources committee  FPInnovations has been a longstanding partner to the industry, to the provinces, as well as to the federal government. They continue to undertake a lot of innovative work on the use of mass timber in construction. This is allowing for the advancement of the National Building Code

Natural Resources committee  Sure. I would be pleased to speak that initiative. The indigenous forestry initiative was renewed in 2017 for $10 million. This was a big shift from its predecessor. This has allowed for much larger-scale investments and partnerships with indigenous communities. Since then, we h

Natural Resources committee  In terms of the impact on the mills themselves, there was one mill that ended up shutting down in Quebec, one of the Resolute company's. In addition, what we heard was a number of anecdotal pieces of information from mills indicating that when the trains were coming up there were

Natural Resources committee  Not at this point, no.

Natural Resources committee  The latest information we have on GDP and exports is from 2018, so it is still a bit dated. What we do is update this information on an annual basis. For 2020, this year, we'll be looking to update the information for 2019. For 2018, though, gross domestic product came in at $25