I have also taken note.
The pulp and paper green transformation program (PPGTP) is facing cuts in the amount of $550 million. Yet the CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada testified before the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and said the following:
...the most strategic investment lies in focusing on those things that transform the industry, things that support the change, such as export development, R and D, environmental reputation, and green transformation. That's what we're hoping to see from the next budget. More important, this is what we're hoping to see over many years.
So why are there such cuts in the sector when continuing the program could, as it says on the Natural Resources Canada site, “secure jobs through forest sector innovation and renewal” for many years to come?