Environment committee  I'm sorry. Are you asking if we include tourist interests and mining interests in our perspective?

Environment committee  I guess the short answer is that those aren't priorities for us. We're looking at forests and forest management, but before we can deliver any sort of packaged agreements to government or come to them with proposals that they are likely to act upon, we need to be able to show tha

Environment committee  We wouldn't have anything to say about whether or not that goes ahead, but in talking to government about conservation plans and management plans for the area, we would certainly have to take into consideration mining interests. That includes oil and gas. For example, in some of

Environment committee  None of them are aboriginal groups, but some of them employ aboriginal people, and all of them work closely with aboriginal people.

Environment committee  It's the sum total of the forest management units under the management of the member companies in the Forest Products Association of Canada.

Environment committee  It's the licensed boreal forest that we're talking about.

Environment committee  Sure. We're working on one in northeastern Ontario right now, for example, where there are first nations interests and communities, and traditional use and territory. There are woodland caribou present. There are two companies that have very large forest management plans for fore

Environment committee  We're proposing a zoned approach to it, which is new. The province has one approach, which is sort of a mosaic-cutting pattern. We've proposed a sort of zoned approach whereby the intact forest is left intact and there's more intensive management on the part of the forest that's

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you for inviting the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement to appear before you today to contribute to your study on the development of a national conservation plan for Canada. There are many aspects of this plan that deserve our comment, but in a 1