This program aims to support Canada’s forest sector in becoming more economically competitive and environmentally sustainable through targeted investments in advanced technologies.
This program aims to support Canada’s forest sector in becoming more economically competitive and environmentally sustainable through targeted investments in advanced technologies.
Established in 2002, Canada Wood funds activities that help Canadian wood producers diversify and expand export opportunities for their products in traditional and emerging overseas markets, including Europe, Japan, China and South Korea.
This paper is intended to provide a greater understanding of the nature of Aboriginal and treaty rights and how they interface with emerging forest policy. When one examines the essence of Aboriginal and treaty rights an early observation must be that these rights are largely about continued use of the forests. This obvious linkage has never been reconciled in forest policy, and where it counts most - at the provincial level. Only now is there some evidence that change may occur.
The objective of this submission is to provide the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples with analyses and options to overcome the inaccessibility to land and resources. Access to forest land resources could be achievable in several forms ranging through outright ownership, special long-term Aboriginal tenures, resource harvesting leases under existing provincial tenure systems, cooperative or joint management agreements, and decision-making or advisory roles in resource management and environmental assessment processes on traditional-use territories.
The Canadian forest industry is a major employer nationwide, particularly in many rural communities, where forest-related work is the main source of income. Deeper statistical analysis of what has changed in recent years is presented.
This webpage discusses the importance of the forest sector to Aboriginal and forest-based communities, challenges of a changing forest sector, and Canadian forest service support for forest-based communities.
A Licence of Occupation is a legal agreement authorizing the temporary occupation and use of Crown Land for such a period of time and under such terms and conditions as the Minister determines to be appropriate. A licence and any renewals cannot exceed twenty years in total. Licences of occupation can be issued for access roads, utility poles and anchors, maple sugary corridors, commercial signs, community event or as an interim measure prior to the finalization of another agreement.
