To do list for BC’s new forests minister – Resource Works

Now it’s time for the MLA for Langford-Highlands on Vancouver Island to sit down with real experts, pick their brains, catch up on BC forestry economics, and come up with a sensible, realistic, and achievable forestry plan.

While promising to be “bold” in finding solutions for the battered forest industry, he is already saying that basic policies will remain in place.

In January, he will receive his official “mandate letter” from Premier David Eby, which will give Parmar his marching orders in terms of principles and priorities.

(The 2022 mandate letter for his predecessor as forests minister, Bruce Ralston, included moving the forest sector to “high-value production” with fewer raw log exports, advancing old-growth protection plans, working toward “full partnership with First Nations in managing B.C. forest resources,” and improving regulatory processes.)

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