Jamie Lim, president-CEO of the Ontario Forest Industries Association (
OFIA), expects to see sound forestry policy heading into 2018, not changes influenced by the "fearmongering" and "misinformation" campaign being spread by "anti-forestry groups."
"As a province, we need to acknowledge that trees are the answer," said Jamie Lim, Ontario Forest Industries Association (
OFIA) president-CEO, in a Jan.
"Forestry will be a top priority for me," said McGarry, in a July 22 statement released through the Ontario Forest Industries Association (
OFIA).
The Ontario Forest Industries Association (
OFIA) countered that there is no "caribou crisis" and provincial government data demonstrates the populations "are persisting in Ontario."
Ontario Forest Industries Association (
OFIA) president Jamie Lim wants to keep the momentum going with the province's Crown wood supply competition.
Scott Jackson, the Ontario Forest Industries Association (
OFIA) policy manager, calls the government's leaning toward the LFMC model a "massive and untested experiment."
Sandy Smith, Dean of the Faculty of Forestry for the University of Toronto, and Jamie Lim, president of the Ontario Forestry Industry Association (
OFIA) are just two of the experts slated to present.
Even an attempted rebuttal of a recent
OFIA media release by the executive director of the Wildlife Conservation Society of Canada--who is listed as a key contributor to a document outlining how anti-industry special interests were able to control the development of the Endangered Species Act--along with a colleague from Trent University casts doubts on the ECO positions, acknowledging that "woodland caribou can cope with some disruption of the forest."
Jamie Lim, President/CEO of the Ontario Forest Industries Association (
OFIA)
However, the province's restriction of logging activity in Algonquin Park has given the Ontario Forest Industry Association (
OFIA) no confidence in its ability to handle changes to the tenure system.