The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been, and continues to be, profoundly important to Canadian democracy…. It is virtually unique in its breadth of ideas and its depth of research.
- Ed Broadbent
Issue(s): Environment and sustainability
Projects & Initiatives: Resource Economics Project (BC)
March 9, 2006
In October 2005, shareholders with one of Canada’s largest forest companies got great news.
As part of a plan to redistribute Crown timber, the British Columbia government paid Canadian Forest Products $62 million in taxpayer dollars for the “loss” of certain logging rights that the company sustained during the provincial reallocation effort.