Likening it to the organizing of deck chairs on the Titanic, Stamer doesn’t believe Doman can be successful in this new role because he isn’t being given the tools from the province to succeed | READ: #Kamloops

 

KAMLOOPS — Earlier this week, the government announced Rick Doman was appointed as the new chair of the Forest Innovation Investment (FII) board.


The board is tasked with expanding opportunities for B.C. forestry products through wood innovation,


 diversifying markets and collaborating to support mass timber and value-added manufacturing. 


While Doman brings more than 40 years of industry experience, B.C. Forest Critic Ward Stamer is unsure if it will lead to tangible changes.


“I have all the confidence in someone like Rick Doman to be able to chair that,” highlighted Stamer. “But again, it doesn’t get to the root issues that we have right now in our forest industry. 


One of them is certainty of supply. We don’t have enough fibre for our manufacturing facilities and without that fibre,

 our secondary manufacturing — which is what this FII is really set up for — isn’t even going to have the products to sell in the first place.”

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