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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
 
Meeting No. 47
 
Thursday, February 19, 2015
 

The Standing Committee on Natural Resources met at 3:31 p.m. this day, in Room 268, The Valour Building, the Chair, Leon Benoit, presiding.

 

Members of the Committee present: Leon Benoit, Kelly Block, Guy Caron, Joan Crockatt, Ryan Leef, Pat Perkins, Hon. Geoff Regan and Brad Trost.

 

Acting Members present: Robert Aubin for Linda Duncan and John Rafferty for Chris Charlton.

 

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Mohamed Zakzouk, Analyst.

 

Witnesses: Canadian Wood Council: Michael Giroux, President. United Steelworkers: Bob Matters, Chair, Steelworkers' Wood Council. Canada Wood Group: Rick Jeffery, President, President and CEO, Coast Forest Products Association. Council of Forest Industries: James Gorman, President and CEO. As an individual: Luc Bouthillier, Full Professor, Department of Wood and Forestry Science, Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, Université Laval.

 
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the Committee on Thursday, January 29, 2015, the Committee resumed its study of the renewal of Canada’s forest industry.
 

Rick Jeffery, James Gorman, by videoconference from Vancouver, British Columbia, Michael Giroux and Bob Matters made statements and answered questions.

 

At 5:00 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 5:03 p.m., the sitting resumed.

 

Luc Bouthillier, by videoconference from Québec, Quebec, made a statement and answered questions.

 

At 5:32 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

 



Rémi Bourgault
Clerk of the Committee

 
 
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