Participating in the Quebec FSC Initiative

 

In this page you will find:

The Initiative's structure

Two forest types

Two sets of standards will be developped for the province: on for the mixed-hardwood forest, and another for the boreal forest, which will merge with Ontario's Great Lakes/St.Lawrence standards and with a boreal national standard, respectively. In order to reduce costs and the number of meetings, there will be a single Steering Committee, under which could work technical and ad hoc committees to resolve particularly challenging issues. The Steering Committee's input on the standards will be submitted to the FSC Canada Working Group.

Distribution of groups within the Steering Committee

See the illustration below

 

The role of the secretariat

The secretariat will ensure the link between the Steering Committee and the FSC Canada Working Group in Toronto. It will translate and distribute FSC documents and other relevant material. It wll organise and do the follow-up of meetings, laise with the media, answer questions the public may have, and see to the promotion of the FSC label among consumers.

Possible links between the Steeting Committee and the secretariat

Click here for a hierarchical chart of the structure (in French for now).

 

 

The "snowball" exercise and contacts to date neigeneigeneigeneige

Participants to the information session held in Montreal on november 7th were invited to provide us with the names of people and organisations likely to be interested in the FSC standards development but who had not been contacted yet. These people and groups were in turn asked to do likewise, until no new names were submitted. This process ensures that it is not the coordinators who draw the list of whom to contact. Here is the list to date of people approached and interested:


Economic chamber

 

  • CERFO
  • Forest industry
    • Abitibi-Consolidated
    • Association de déroulage et de sciage feuillu du Québec
    • COBODEX Export
    • Commonwealth Plywood
    • Domtar
    • John Lewis
    • Kruger
    • Papiers Fraser
    • Produits forestiers Anticosti
    • Quebec Lumber Manufacturers Association
    • Tembec
  • Fédération des pourvoyeurs du Québec
  • Fédération des producteurs de bois du Québec
  • Syndicat des producteurs de bois de la Beauce
  • Syndicat des producteurs de bois de la région de Québec
  • Syndicat des producteurs de bois de l'Estrie
  • Syndicat des producteurs de bois de la Mauricie
  • GFG-Camint
  • Institut forestier du Canada section Orléans
  • Ordre des ingénieurs forestiers du Québec
  • Producteurs de sirop d'érable du Québec
  • Quebec Wood Export Bureau

Environnemental
chamber

 

  • The World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
  • Les Ami-e-s de la Terre de Québec
  • Association des biologistes du Québec
  • Fédération québécoise de la faune
  • Fédération québécoise pour le saumon atlantique
  • Fondation de la faune du Québec
  • Greenpeace Montréal
  • Réseau québécois des groupes écologistes
  • Union québécoise pour la conservation de la nature (UQCN)

FAPAQ has asked to be kept informed.

 


Social chamber

 

  • Fédération des travailleurs forestiers et pâtes et papier de la CSN
  • Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
  • La corporation de gestion de la Forêt de l'Aigle
  • RESAM
  • La Conférence des coopératives forestières du Québec
  • La Fédération québécoise des municipalités
  • L'association des régions du Québec
  • Fédération québécoise de canot et kayak
  • Fédération québécoise des gestionnaires de ZEC
  • Assemblée des évêques/Conférence religieuse du Canada

 

 


Aboriginal chamber

 

  • The Waswanippi Cree Model Forest
  • Cree Grand Council
  • Listuguj Micmac
  • Mohawks of Kahnawake
  • Conseil tribal Mamuitun
  • Algonquins
  • Conseil tribal Mamet-Inuat
  • Conseil tribal Mamu Pakatatau Mamit
  • Conseil de la Nation Attikamekw
  • Sustainable Development Institute of the Association of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador

Représentatives on the Steering Committee
  • Association de déroulage et sciage feuillu du Québec (Carl Tremblay)
  • Domtar (Jacques Bray;
    substitute    : Carl-Éric Guertin, Quebec Wood Export Bureau)
  • Fédération des producteurs de bois du Québec (Daniel Fillion ou Jean-Pierre Dansereau)
  • Tembec (Martin Landry ou Michel Lessard;
    substitute    : Francine Dorion, Abitibi-Consolidated)
  • Association des biologistes du Québec (Natalie Perron)
  • Fédération des gestionnaires de ZEC du Québec (Suzanne St-Amour)
  • WWF (Nathalie Zinger; Steering Committee chair)
  • Union québécoise pour la conservation de la nature (Louis Bélanger)
  • Canadian Religious Conference - Québec section (Lorraine Théberge;
    substitute: Bernard Hudon)
  • Fédération des travailleurs du papier et de la forêt, CSN (Michel Fortin)
  • RESAM (Eugène Gagné;
    substitute    : Jocelyn Lessard, CCFQ)
  • Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (François Gallant)
  • Sustainable Development Institute of teh AFNQL (Valérie Courtois; substitute : Michel Mongeon)
  • Attikamekws (Wemotaci: Simon Coocoo)
  • Montagnais (Mashteuiatsh: Judith Courtois)
  • Algonquins (Barrière Lake: Hector Jerome)

How to join the process

You want to have your say in the development of the standards? Several possibilities exist. If you are with an organisation that can belong to one of the above four chambers, contact us for us to add you to the list. The election of representatives for the Steering Committee will be held in the summer of 2001. You can then participate in this election, as a candidate or as part of the voting assembly. Chamber representatives will be accountable to you and will present your comments and feedback as the standards are developped.

Another way to be involved, especially for individuals and local groups, will be the province-wide consultation on the draft standards, expected for December 2002. Return to this website to stay abreast of the latest developments. This consultation will be advertised here.