Joe Trasolini's News
February 21, 2013
VICTORIA– In Question Period on Thursday, New Democrats focused on B.C.'s future with questions about raw log exports, forest health, cuts to post-secondary education and the lack of investment in skills training.
Forest critic Norm Macdonald kicked off question period by challenging the Liberals to explain why they have overruled their own raw log export committee more than 100 times. Macdonald said the resignation of a prominent member of the Timber Export Advisory Committee...
February 21, 2013
VICTORIA – The resignation of prominent Timber Export Advisory Committee member David Gray highlights the Liberal government’s failure to bring balance to the raw log export issue, say the New Democrats.
“Last year, more than 5.7 million cubic metres of raw logs were exported from B.C.,” said New Democrat forests critic Norm Macdonald. “We know that costs jobs. We’ve heard from mills in the lower mainland, the south Interior and Vancouver Island that would...
May 14, 2012
VICTORIA – Raw log exports are keeping a Port Moody sawmill from operating at full capacity, says Port Moody-Coquitlam MLA Joe Trasolini.
Trasolini, who was elected April 19, and officially sworn in as an MLA on May 9, raised the issue in his first question in the B.C. Legislature Monday afternoon.
“For years, Flavelle ran two shifts per day, employing 60 workers,” said Trasolini in the legislature. “Now, they’re down to a single shift, and even that’s not...
