JIM VIBERT: Forestry transition team needs broader reach
“Claudia Chender has a point when she suggests the province’s forest transition team is unbalanced.
Neither she, nor anyone else as far as I know, is questioning the team’s stability – emotional or otherwise – but five of its nine members are on the public payroll, while four are from the forest sector, which is really hurting right now.
Chender believes the team, formed to help the sector through the loss of its biggest market when Northern Pulp closed, needs more representation and clout from the communities that are feeling that hurt.
“… what we would like to see is a much more robust, important engagement … of all the communities that are so deeply impacted by this…” she said.
Her point was sharpened this week when the transition team’s leaders. . .”