{"time": "2026-01-26 15:00:00", "attribution": {"en": "Aaron Gunn (North Island\u2014Powell River, CPC)", "fr": "Aaron Gunn (North Island\u2014Powell River, PCC)"}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9119631\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, last week was a devastating one for forestry workers and their families on Vancouver Island. Just outside Port McNeill, the Atli Chip plant announced it would be permanently closed, and curtailments were announced at the Ladysmith and Saltair locations of the iconic Chemainus sawmill, where my grandfather worked for 30 years. These were good-paying jobs, the type of jobs that built communities up and down Vancouver Island and right across B.C.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9119632\" data-originallang=\"en\">The government promised to stand with these workers, to have their backs. Instead, mills keep closing and workers are being laid off. When will the government's actions and results finally live up to its rhetoric and its words?</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9119631\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, la semaine derni\u00e8re a \u00e9t\u00e9 catastrophique pour les travailleurs forestiers de l'\u00eele de Vancouver et leur famille. On a annonc\u00e9 la fermeture d\u00e9finitive de l'usine d'Atli Chip, tout pr\u00e8s de Port McNeill, ainsi que des suppressions de postes \u00e0 Chemainus, dans les scieries de Ladysmith et de Saltair. Mon grand-p\u00e8re a travaill\u00e9 pendant 30 ans pour cette entreprise embl\u00e9matique. Il s'agissait d'emplois bien r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9s, le genre d'emplois qui ont permis de b\u00e2tir des collectivit\u00e9s d'un bout \u00e0 l'autre de l'\u00eele de Vancouver et partout en Colombie\u2011Britannique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9119632\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le gouvernement avait promis de d\u00e9fendre ces travailleurs et de les soutenir. Au lieu de cela, les scieries ferment les unes apr\u00e8s les autres et des travailleurs sont mis \u00e0 pied. Quand les actions et les r\u00e9sultats du gouvernement seront-ils enfin \u00e0 la hauteur de ses belles paroles?</p>"}, "url": "/debates/2026/1/26/aaron-gunn-1/", "politician_url": "/politicians/aaron-gunn/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4839/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "13313964", "h1": {"en": "Oral Questions", "fr": "Questions orales"}, "h2": {"en": "Forestry Industry", "fr": "L'industrie foresti\u00e8re"}, "document_url": "/debates/2026/1/26/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F1%2F26%2F"}}