Ecological Federation of Granada

Federation of Young European Greens | FYEG [Abbr.]

Federation of Young European Ecologists

The table comprised 25 diverse stakeholders including: local, provincial and federal governments; domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers; petroleum and alternative fuel producers; carriers, including truckers, railways, airlines and shipping; environmentalists; and consumers.

Our Coalition is made up of 12 labour, social and environmental organizations from Quebec: Assemblée des évêques du Québec (the bishops' assembly of Quebec); the Coalition Urgence rurale du Bas-Saint-Laurent (Lower St. Lawrence rural emergency coalition); the Canadian Religious Conference, Quebec Region; the Fédération des producteurs du Québec of the UPA—these are people who produce wood in private forests—; the Federation of Paper and Forest Workers of the CNTU, represented by Mr. Michel Fortin; the Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec; the Regroupement national des Conseils régionaux de l'environnement du Québec (national associ ...[+++]ation of regional councils for the environment of Quebec); the Réseaux québécois des groupes écologistes (Quebec network for ecological groups); the Communications, Energy and Paper workers Union of Canada which is affiliated to the Quebec Federation of Labour; the Syndicat de la fonction publique du Québec (Quebec public service union), in other words provincial public servants; the Syndicat des professionnels et des professionnelles du gouvernement du Québec; and the Union québécoise pour la conservation de la nature (Quebec association for nature conservation).

Mr. Speaker, the federal government has been conspicuously absent from the summit on the future of the forestry sector despite the fact that unions, businesses, the Minister of Natural Resources and Wildlife, Claude Béchard, the Minister of Finance, Monique Jérôme-Forget, and environmental groups have unanimously called on the federal government to help the workers, businesses and communities affected by the crisis in the forestry sector.

To me that is a deliberate and scandalous slap in the face to sport fishermen and fisherwomen, to environmentalists, to ecologists and to anyone remotely interested in looking after wild Atlantic salmon, which are endangered and threatened in much of Atlantic Canada, and certainly as well to the Atlantic Salmon Association and people like Lewis Hinks, people who operate and work as volunteers, many of them with the Atlantic Salmon Federation, the Gold River Salmon Association, the LaHave River Salmon Association and others.