Natural Resources committee  The point is that there are many steps. I could bury you with the regulatory environment across the country, but it's very robust.

Natural Resources committee  First of all, downtime to keep people safe and to make sure people are getting paid, that's the number one priority. Number two, many people don't realize our forestry workers are often on the front line with local first responders, digging trenches and making firebreaks. We're g

Natural Resources committee  Depending on how badly burned it is, we have to be careful at our sawmills that some of the wood that's really dry and damaged doesn't become a fire hazard in the mills. Dealing with that type of wood is really tough for the sawmills, but it really depends on the quality of the r

Natural Resources committee  We have the national adaptation strategy and the Canadian wildfire strategy. There are a number of tools, but more active management such as thinning is absolutely really critical, and we can reap the benefits of some low-grade wood to bake low-carbon things as well.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. It's important, because it also sets Canada apart globally in terms of the nature of our forests. About 94% of commercial forestry in Canada is done on public or provincial Crown land. You have a bit of private forestry, of course, on the west coast, the Maritimes and small

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm Derek Nighbor, president and CEO at Forest Products Association of Canada. My colleague Mahima Sharma is with me. She is our VP of innovation, environment and climate policy, and she's our in-house chemical engineer. We're going to talk a bit about some

Natural Resources committee  I think we could learn a lot from Sweden and Finland, which are on more aggressive net-zero road maps—Finland for 2035 and Sweden for 2045. They've taken a very full value chain, sector-specific approach to bring policy, regulation, legislation, funding, programs and tax incentiv

Natural Resources committee  I will start by saying that on the two billion trees program, we do 400 million to 600 million trees a year. It really depends on seedlings. We provided some advice to NRCan up front, because we know that business. We don't want to jam the nurseries. We don't want to have a short

Natural Resources committee  Not at this scale; I think B.C. has had to do more because of fires, but I do think there.... I don't want to blow by the benefits of the two billion trees program. On wildfire prevention, the Forest Enhancement Society of British Columbia is doing some great thinning and proact

Natural Resources committee  I think it's a mix. I think some of that's on us in industry too in terms of working.... I'm giving a speech in Toronto to about 400 architects and engineers on Thursday to talk about forestry 101. And also it's the ability to scale up. I think we're seeing more mass timber capac

Natural Resources committee  Yes, it's going very well. I think it's a mix of things. I also think, you know what, that the best thing this government and all MPs can do for Canadian forestry and mass timber is to talk more proudly about us. I'm always shocked when I'm talking to some MPs and they want to

Natural Resources committee  I think that where I was going is that you can't build green buildings unless you harvest trees sustainably. I think we need to be talking about it and Canada is a leader. I'm an adviser to the UN Forum on Forests. The global people are coming to me, the Swedes and the Finns. We'

Natural Resources committee  I think there are two parts to that. On the subsidies side, I think the Americans will try to call anything a subsidy. That's part of the exercise here. I know they have even claimed that one of our youth mentoring programs that gets some government funding is a subsidy. This is

Natural Resources committee  Yes. On decarbonization, I think there are a number of us. If you look at annual emissions in 2020, iron, steel and aluminum were at over 20 megatonnes. Agriculture chemicals and fertilizer were at over 18 megatonnes. Cement was at almost 11 megatonnes. Pulp, paper and wood were

Natural Resources committee  I like the clean tech tax credit that was announced in the fall economic statement. I think that holds promise, but I think we need capital funding projects to decarbonize lime kilns. We have a number of mills—a couple of mills in northern New Brunswick and one in northern Manito