Natural Resources committee  Yes, absolutely. The provinces, as you mentioned, hold jurisdiction over the forests. They're the ones that regulate the harvesting and determine which standards are set. They delegate responsibility to private forest companies through licensing and timber supply agreements. The

Natural Resources committee  There are a number of questions there. As you rightly noted, the FSC certification, in our understanding, is from the Resolute transaction that 100% of the lands held by Paper Excellence would be third party certified. It's likely noted on the website, as you mentioned. The bene

Natural Resources committee  I don't think I'd be able to provide a reliable comparison between different certifications across the world, aside from noting that Canada, as I mentioned, is a world leader in the amount of third party-certified forest we have.

Natural Resources committee  As I noted, Canada has the largest area of forests in the world where practices are third party independently certified. They may be certified by one or more third party standards, including the Canadian Standards Association, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and the Forest St

Natural Resources committee  Wonderful. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good morning, committee members. I would like to begin by recognizing that we are on the ancestral land of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. I'm Greg Smith. I'm the director of the economic analysis division of Natural Resources Canada'

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. Since 2017, I suppose, there have been a number of programs delivered by Natural Resources Canada, including the forest innovation program. There are also various R and D supports and technology promotion programs delivered through the Canadian forest

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. Thank you for the question. In total, the green construction through wood program delivered $55 million over five years involving 16 large projects, but it supported many other activities including, as I mentioned, educational activities and information sharing. Ther

Natural Resources committee  There's potentially an element of that. I think that in general it's about supporting the changes to building codes, which are being done through a number of different projects of the Government of Canada. It takes time to implement that and for that information to become more co

Natural Resources committee  I think that would be me. We have been delivering programs since 2017 to promote the trade in Canadian wood products. This will continue to be an important area. Of course, on the mill closures, yes, there has been very difficult pricing at times in recent years, in the last yea

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. Yes, that is a key consideration in thinking about the kind of net GHG emissions associated with using wood. As mentioned before, provinces enact sustainable forest management practices that require forest regeneration. As a result, the emissions that are, a

Natural Resources committee  Thanks very much for the question. The information that I can provide today is that the program that I spoke of, GCWood, that was promoting building with wood across Canada, supported a number of activities—demonstration projects; wood education, as I previously mentioned; and

Natural Resources committee  Yes. We would be able to do that.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. Yes, the IRA has been studied quite heavily from various aspects at Natural Resources Canada. However, I would say that at this time we're still studying where these programs are being delivered, how they're being delivered and their nature. That woul

Natural Resources committee  Thank you again for the question. I think it's important to note that the 40% decrease here would be from both operational emissions—heating, space heating and things like that—and low embodied carbon. These are both very important aspects to address from the building sector. Na

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. The renewed bioeconomy framework that was released and approved by the CCFM last year offers a number of different actions that can be taken to support the bioeconomy, one of which is promoting innovation and supporting innovative wood produ