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Estimates on the Ministry of Forests operations with Forest Minister Ravi Parmar, for forestry critic Ward Stamer – budgeted with $406,398,000 RAVI PARMAR: It’s an incredible team that I’m responsible for and get the opportunity to work with as well. I just wanted to give them a shout-out as they support me over the course of the next six hours. I’m looking forward to the discussion. Ward Stamer ... it sounds like we’ve gone almost full circle and we’re going to be having the same conversation again. Part of that was when we looked at the current data and how many direct jobs that we had in our industry, we had approximately 56,000 direct jobs with anywhere between 150,000 and 200,000 other jobs that were tied directly to the forest industry, and that we had lost approximately 10,000 jobs in the previous year. That was previous 2025. I would suggest that we’ve lost probably somewhere in that neighbourhood again last year in 2025. So, let’s get right to the crux of some o...

While BC Forest Minister Ravi Parmar boasts about the government planting 231 million tree seedlings in 2025 ... here's some facts people might be interested in . During the 2024 provincial election, the BC NDP promised there would be 300 million seedlings p lanted every year.     ... the BC NDP promised to plant 300 million trees annually across the province to “help increase forest resilience.” How has that worked out, you might be asking? Two years ago there were 280 million seedlings planted (BC government news – 12/23/2024) -- last year just 231 million seedlings were planted.  That’s 49 million fewer than in 2024 – and 70 million fewer than the promised 300 million. An yet it seems BC NDP Forest Minister Ravi Parmar feels this is something to be proud of, as noted in an “X” (formerly Twitter) post he made on December 30 th when he said: "In 2025 alone, 231 million tree seedlings were planted in BC ... e nsuring the land base stays strong for generations ...