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{
"time": "2022-11-22 17:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Earl Dreeshen (Red Deer\u2014Mountain View, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Earl Dreeshen (Red Deer\u2014Mountain View, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7476861\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thank you, Mr. Chair.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7476862\" data-originallang=\"en\">Thanks to all our witnesses.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7476863\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Nighbor, you mentioned some of the discussions around our two billion trees initiative and so on. I know there's an announcement today describing that. Of course, somehow what's lost in the narrative is the reality of what provinces and foresters have been doing for decades. The industry in Alberta planted more than 100 million trees in 2021 and in Ontario 36.7 million trees. B.C. plants on average 218 million trees a year. Industry is doing that. They are doing their part. It's a great photo op to be able to talk about these things, but the reality is that, as you have indicated, that's just a very small part of what is important as far as the forestry industry is concerned.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7476864\" data-originallang=\"en\">Are there other initiatives, such as insect and disease condition control, old-growth forest management, mountain pine beetle and so on, where the government could actually be doing some things that would be more effective?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7476861\" data-originallang=\"en\">Merci, monsieur le pr\u00e9sident.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7476862\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je remercie tous nos t\u00e9moins.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7476863\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur Nighbor, vous avez mentionn\u00e9 certaines discussions sur notre initiative Programme 2 milliards d'arbres et sur d'autres \u00e9l\u00e9ments connexes. Je sais qu'une annonce a \u00e9t\u00e9 faite \u00e0 ce sujet aujourd'hui. Bien entendu, on omet toujours de mentionner les efforts accomplis par les provinces et les forestiers depuis des d\u00e9cennies. L'industrie a plant\u00e9 plus de 100 millions d'arbres en Alberta en 2021 et 36,7 millions en Ontario. En moyenne, on plante en Colombie\u2011Britannique 218 millions d'arbres chaque ann\u00e9e. On peut remercier l'industrie pour ces arbres. Elle y met du sien. L'initiative donne lieu \u00e0 de beaux discours et \u00e0 de belles s\u00e9ances de photos, mais, dans les faits \u2014 comme vous l'avez indiqu\u00e9 \u2014, elle repr\u00e9sente une solution minime pour ce qui importe dans l'industrie foresti\u00e8re.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7476864\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement pourrait-il se rendre utile en s'int\u00e9ressant \u00e0 des initiatives plus efficaces telles que le contr\u00f4le des insectes et des maladies, la gestion des for\u00eats anciennes, la lutte contre le dendroctone du pin ponderosa et d'autres mesures?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/natural-resources/44-1/42/earl-dreeshen-1/",
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