Industry committee  In my view, yes.

Industry committee  I don't know if you can artificially peg your currency, like Australia has done in the past type of thing; it goes where it goes. I think we are all facing developing pulp industries in other countries, eucalyptus with 15-year rotation ages, which affects the price of the fibre.

Industry committee  I left a dozen copies with Jim.

Industry committee  Thank you very much for having me out here. I will take every opportunity I can to try to get you not to pass Bill C-24.

Industry committee  I think the industry in the east is in big trouble. This softwood lumber thing is going to make it a lot worse. B.C. produced 58% of what went into the United States, and at least three-quarters of that comes out of the B.C. interior. B.C. has that beetle kill. So for the next fe

Industry committee  Yes, I do. I suggest that we finish this softwood lumber case, get all our money back, and have free trade. We take the legal precedents we have, we take the fact that the coalition is really getting beaten up--once again they lose and get no return on investment--and we take t

Industry committee  I'm sorry, I know nothing about the furniture industry. I think that was perhaps another witness who was going to appear here.

Industry committee  The only thing I know about it is that the U.S. furniture manufacturers seem to be having quite a time with Chinese imports and they've piled a bunch of duties on them as well. How the Canadian guys are faring in Canada against the Chinese competition or in the United States I re

Industry committee  No.

Industry committee  I don't know that they did support it. My understanding is that the companies turned it down initially, on April 25. They didn't want to do this deal, at least in B.C. They were subsequently...talked to, maybe? I wasn't there, I don't know. But we were certainly talked to, I kn

Industry committee  With regard to currency fluctuations, when we have a low Canadian dollar it's great for export. In the mid-eighties we had a slide down as far as 64%, I think. We're back up again. Or was it 20 years ago our dollar was higher...? It moves around. You just adapt, eh. Do we lik

Industry committee  It's not going to bring stability, no. I read to you the opinion of the Canadian Lumber Trade Alliance--that's all the big guys, the B.C. Lumber Trade Council and the whole bunch of them--when they did their submission to the U.S. Court of Appeals. They see that, yes, we're going

Industry committee  I think you could say that the large companies in B.C. have made a fair bit of investment, and they continue to do so. There was quite a round of investment to try to get around the anti-dumping duty. I think the companies in the interior of British Columbia found that the more t

Industry committee  Yes, the quota is certainly a problem. The United States has just been on one of the longest big consumption things that we've ever seen. The consumption has been a record for the last four or five years. Canada has been supplying about 35% of that market. Under this agreement th

Industry committee  The provincial governments and the federal government have an option to withhold some quota. In 1996 the federal government withheld I believe 600 million feet of the 14.7 billion that was allocated to the country, and they asked for expressions of interest from new entrants who