B.C. Liberal leader Kevin Falcon roundly criticized Wednesday the governing New Democrats' recently-announced plan for generating new manufacturing jobs in the wake of the permanent closure of a line at Canfor's Prince George Pulp and Paper Mill.
In announcing the closure on January 11 of the mill's pulp line, Canfor Pulp president and CEO Kevin Edgson cited "reductions in the allowable annual cut and challenges accessing cost-competitive fibre," as the reasons for the step. Through the fund, the province will contribute up to $50,000 towards completion of business plans and technical assessments for fledgling capital projects and up to $10 million for "investment-ready" capital projects. Examples of the latter include "adopting innovative processes to manufacture value-added forestry products from biomass or other alternatives," according to a government backgrounder.
"Their solution to red tape issues...is to hire up to 200 more bureaucrats to help make the permitting process go faster, which is actually laughable when you think about it," Falcon said. "What they need to do is fix their current process for getting permits issued, not add a whole new layer of bureaucracy and hope that that bureaucracy can speak to this bureaucracy to try and make things move quicker. It doesn't make sense.
They are making hundreds of millions of profit already. We need a stick not a carrot.
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