Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

General state of forest industry, ministry organization and Softwood Lumber Agreement discussions.

Target Contacts

Environment

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Open Burning - Smoke Control

Target Contacts

Environment

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Species at Risk: Raise awareness with government of how these issues may adversely impact the forest sector. Request full benefit-cost analysis of proposed policy changes across all resource sectors prior to any decisions being made.

Target Contacts

Environment

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Water: Update on progress by government towards modernizing the Water Act. Request by COFI to be engaged in process.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Mountain Caribou: Mitigation/compensation for impacts resulting from Government Actions Regulation Orders; Progress Board.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Boreal Caribou

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Timber Supply - AAC Partitioning: Improved the enforcement authority as well as operational and competitive provisions.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Resource Roads Act (pending): Improve the responsibility, liability, cost, safety and deactivation/surrender aspects of road permit holders in managing multi-resource user use of resource road systems.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Provincial Forestry Forum: Influence nature of and timing of statutory, regulatory and policy change agenda and content including the introduction of a "benefit-cost" lens/test/improvement filter for new policy change proposals and an effective Regional Operational Issues process; including MITAG (Major Industry Tenure) Advisory Committee general work; including OIF (Operational Issues Forum) general work.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Wildfire Changes: Proposed changes to introduce a professional reliant, results based approach to hazard assessment and abatement; advocated for an improved understanding of numerous sections of the Act and Regulation.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Short-medium term MPB timber supply mitigation (MTSSM): Advocating for the review and amendment of land use constraints within MPB damaged management units.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Professional Reliance: Expand the application of a fully functioning professional model throughout the MFR that maximizes the administrative efficiencies from the practice of professional reliance; development of workshops.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Tenures - Debris fibre utilization: Improved public policy and legislation framework for the economic movement of currently underutilized fibre (tenures [eg.: Receiving Licence], scaling, grade 4 cut control credit for cruise based volumes, etc.)

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Northern Woodlands Managers Working Group

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Species Adjustment Factors

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Timber Disposition Strategy

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

First Nations Woodland Licences

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

First Nations consultation

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Northern Operational Issues Form

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

First Nations Consultation

Target Contacts

Forestry

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Southern Operational Issues Form

Target Contacts

Transportation

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Proposed amendments to regulation.

Target Contacts

Environment

Arranging meeting between an individual and a public office holder for purpose of lobbying

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Climate change policy that supports the competitiveness of the BC forest sector.

Target Contacts

Environment

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Identify opportunities for forest sector in bioeconomy

Target Contacts

Environment

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Fair allocation of emission allowances for cap and trade. Effective approach to developing forestry carbon offsets, economic impacts of various climate change policies.

Target Contacts

Environment

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Economic impacts of various climate change policies.

Target Contacts

Environment

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Appropriate forms of GHG regulation, offset protocols, communication of forest carbon.

Target Contacts

Environment

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Solid Wood Processing Code of Practice.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Appropriate legislative framework for resource road safety.

Target Contacts

Insurance

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Policy regarding coverage for workers and firms engaged in forest fire control.

Target Contacts

Labour/Labour Relations

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Clarity of wording in Bill 14 related to compensation for stress.

Target Contacts

Environment

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Species at Risk: Raise awareness with government of how these issues may adversely impact the forest sector. Request full benefit cost analysis of proposed policy changes across all resource sectors prior to any decisions being made.

Target Contacts

Environment

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Water: Update on progress by government towards modernizing the Water Act. Request by COFI to be engaged in process.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Provincial Forestry Forum: Influence nature of and timing of statutory, regulatory and policy change agenda and content including the introduction of a "benefit-cost" lens/test improvement filter for new policy change proposals and an effective Regional Operational Issues process; including MITAG (Major Industry Tenure Advisory Committee general work; including OIF (Operational Issues Forum) general work.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Timber Pricing Issues: Forest Act & Forest and Range Practices Act - changes to legislation and policy to reduce costs for forest industry and improve defensibility of BC's forest management to US Subsidy and dumping litigation; Joint work too: better develop, implement and annually update the Interior Market Pricing System (MPS) and; ensure a BC Timber Sales (BCTS) standing timber sales dataset that is up to date and representative of the full range of timber quality and operating circumstances throughout the market cycles and across the interior; damaged timber pricing outside the waterbed but SLA defensible.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Timber Appraisal Issues: Updates to the IAM; Reduce crown stumpage liabilities for purchased wood volumes both scale based and cruise based sources.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Resource Roads Act (Pending): Improve the responsibility, liability, cost, safety and deactivation/surrender aspects of road permit holders in managing multi-resource user use of resource road systems.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Wildfire Changes: Proposed changes to introduce a professional reliant, results based approach to hazard assessment and abatement; advocated for an improved understanding of numerous sections of the Act and Regulation.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Short-medium term MPB timber supply mitigation (MTSSM): Advocating for the review and amendment of land use constraints within MPB damaged Management Units.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Professional Reliance: Expand the application of a fully functioning professional model throughout the MFR that maximizes the administrative efficiencies from the practice of professional reliance; development of workshops.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

Tenures - Debris fibre utilization: Improved public policy and legislation frawmework for the conomic movement of currently underutilized fibre (tenures [eg.: Receiving Licence], scaling, grade 4 cut control credit for cruise based volumes, etc.)

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

BC Timber Sales: Timber Sales Advisory Committee - influence volume and nature of BCTS sales so as to achieve both the log market pricing reference mandate and the magnitude of volume sold intothe marketplace mandate.

Target Contacts

Forestry

Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy or decision

Introduction, modification or repeal of legislation, a bill or regulation

First Nations Consultation

Target Contacts