Mr. Speaker, one of the Canadian forest industry's most valued customers is the Home Depot chain of North American stores.
On March 17 Rainforest Action Network is co-ordinating a massive protest at Home Depot stores across Canada and the U.S. to urge people not to buy our old growth forest products. By definition most of the forests harvested in Canada are old growth.
Why is the minister sitting in silence while foreign lobbyists denigrate our forest products?