"Known as Bill 97, this proposed legislation was aimed at significantly increasing the volume of timber extracted from the province's forests. It envisioned handing over at least one-third of the province's forests for exclusive use by private industrial logging interests while another third would have been open to logging but would have also permitted other activities, including recreation. The remaining third would have been for conservation."
"The bill faced stiff opposition from civil society and Indigenous people. Months of organised, broad-based resistance paid off. The bill was abandoned, but the fact that it was even proposed to begin with is an indication of where the priorities of the governing Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) coalition lie. It believes that it is justifiable to bulldoze over environmental regulations, climate action and Indigenous rights to serve the interests of the logging lobby."
Quebec's right-leaning Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) government proposed Bill 97 to substantially increase timber extraction across the province. The bill allocated roughly one-third of forests for exclusive industrial logging, one-third for logging plus other uses such as recreation, and one-third for conservation. The proposal provoked stiff opposition from civil society and Indigenous peoples, including an immediate rejection from the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL), which said its recommendations after more than a year of consultation were ignored. Months of organised, broad-based resistance led to the bill's abandonment, and calls grew to ensure Indigenous voices are not ignored again.
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