Natural Resources committee  I don't want to lie to please you. If you want to cut money from Natural Resources, go into the A base, because you could sharpen all of those programs. I've made my suggestions to the officials at NRCan on how to make them a little more strategic and a bit sharper. All of those

Natural Resources committee  The green transformation program of $1 billion. We love that the most.

Natural Resources committee  We're an exporting industry and we're competing against Brazil, the Scandinavian countries, Russia, and parts of China. If we can't beat them, there isn't enough money in the federal treasury to save our bacon. You simply cannot support us if we can't be competitive. You can help

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I would agree, of course. I was quite clear: most of the industry hates the softwood lumber agreement. It is just that it's it's a lot better than not having it. Yes, we're suffering from it. We don't believe in it. We believe in free trade. Even when we were winning cas

Natural Resources committee  It's their marketplace. We're the seller, they're the buyer. They control the rules under which they let our stuff in. You talked about the cost of housing. We used to mobilize the U.S. housing lobby by saying this was causing house prices to go up. But the distribution of power

Natural Resources committee  It's quite possible. We would be less dependent. If markets return, with the pine beetle reduction in our fibre availability, with the exports to other countries, the United States may be more in a position of asking for our stuff than trying to control it. Time will tell, but i

Natural Resources committee  I'll answer from two perspectives, one from the forest industry's perspective. We can't speak for others, but I will talk more largely as a nation. From a forest industry perspective, our good name is very important to us. Conducting ourselves in a way that tells the world they

Natural Resources committee  I don't think you should fund them any more than you should fund us. What we need help with is (a) the science, so we're using government science as a basis of agreement, and (b) the solution space, convening the process. Working with maps and doing the actual land use planning i

Natural Resources committee  There are no big cash investments right now, so what we're doing is shutting down less pulp. There's no big capital. We haven't got that kind of big cash infusion, and for a pulp mill you're talking upwards of $800 million. But that's certainly where the investments for moderniza

Natural Resources committee  I'm not in a position to do that because I haven't done a study of them, and they're not as visible to us because we never asked for them. We'd be very happy to be consulted by Natural Resources if it is doing a review, and to be part of the process, but it would be irresponsible

Natural Resources committee  I just want to be respectful of the people doing it.

Natural Resources committee  For a while, there was very little upgrading of the capital stock, because everybody was trying to preserve cash. So at a time when prices were below the cost of production, you either shut down or you went through your savings. Either way, you weren't bringing in investment for

Natural Resources committee  Huge. One of the sawmill owners told me that a lot of his competitors are only in business because they haven't done the math yet. It's....

Natural Resources committee  Well, it varies by company. Some of the companies figured out a little earlier that pulp and paper and lumber are not going to be enough and got into the bioenergy and biomaterials game earlier, but now even the ones who were a bit slower are looking at it. By province, I can't

Natural Resources committee  Both.