Environment committee  I'm familiar with the challenges of it. It started with FSC, or FSC was a big part of it, and then chain of custody and product tracking became a conversation that has become part of the vernacular, so to speak, of all certification programs. It's to some extent being requested

Environment committee  Yes. Across the land base it's well understood that government is the final decision-maker so we're hoping for something very soon coming out of Minister Orazietti's office.

Environment committee  I guess what we're leading up to is to—

Environment committee  I guess what we could commit to is to provide examples of the stewardship-based results that we see as a result of work that has taken place. Whether or not we can contrast that with what has taken place under SARA so far may be a little difficult at this stage, but to provide ev

Environment committee  It's an example of the conservation planning that's taking place on all of the tenures, particularly if we're talking in the context of SARA, with respect to the development of action plans to comply with SARA. The provincial government in Ontario in this case had a caribou app

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely. When you compare and contrast that with things such as the precautionary principle, we all need to be proceeding with a measure of caution as we implement policies or regulations, given that science is sometimes inconclusive and always developing. But when we tak

Environment committee  Do you mean with respect to some of the work?

Environment committee  With respect to the work taking place on caribou, some of the science is still developing and inconclusive.

Environment committee  I like some of the things that have been said here. One is that the focus should be less on the monetary incentives and more on incentives that allow companies or industries to focus on things along the lines of stewardship agreements and multi-stakeholder arrangements, such as t

Environment committee  This is one particular area where as a forest sector we're in a slightly different position in that we are working with trees that are directly affected by the climates in which they live. It's important for us to be mitigating and adapting in such a way to ensure that the areas

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks to the committee for the invitation to be here today. I'm here representing the Forest Products Association of Canada, the national voice of the wood, pulp, and paper sector, and the 19 members we specifically represent. I am joined by my colleag