‘Difficult decision’ to trim silviculture funding until next year: minister. Budget cuts announced for forest stewardship in British Columbia are signs of the government’s short term thinking, a theft from future generations and evidence that recent commitments were lies, according to critics.
The minister responsible, Steve Thomson, acknowledges the ministry made sacrifices to help balance the provincial budget, but argues the key inventory work is being done to prepare for future years when the budget is restored. “Significant cuts to budgets that were already inadequate,” was how the NDP’s forestry critic, Norm Macdonald, characterized the budget for the ministry of forests, lands and natural resource operations.
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