Friday, July 31, 2020, Morning — Committee A
It's an interesting number in terms of the Peace country. I've heard numbers fluctuating, particularly estimates from industry, but it is what it is, I suppose, in terms of the…. I won't quite go into the arguments of whether it's 540 or 270 or 280. It's still a reduction. This past fall there were…. I believe the number was in the thousands of people on Vancouver Island that came to the Legislature and delivered a petition the minister. In particular, they had been talking a lot about the working forest and the need for a designation of the working forest. Does the minister support the petition and the efforts that have been going on by the people in the forest sector on Vancouver Island delivered a petition to the minister. In particular, they had been talking a lot about the working forest and the need for a designation of the working forest. Does the minister support the petition — and the efforts that have been going on by the people in the forest sector on Vancouver Island, as well many right across the province — that there should be a designated working forest dedicated to supporting our forest sector?
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