Ottawa has not responded to Tokyo invitation to join International Tropical Timber Organization
The federal Liberal government has yet to respond to a months-old invitation from Tokyo to have Canada rejoin a global environmental organization that regulates the timber trade.
The organization currently includes 37 exporters of timber and 38 countries that import it, including all other G7 states. But Canada has now been absent from the timber organization for nearly a decade, during which the World Wildlife Fund has reported worsening tropical deforestation in parts of southern Africa and Peru, driven by illegal and unsustainable logging.
He said the organization “plays an important role in the areas of environment and climate change, one of the priority areas of bilateral co-operation between Canada and Japan” under various agreements the two have signed.“Sustainable forest products, limiting deforestation and combatting illegal logging are priorities for Canada,” reads the July 2022 briefing note, prepared in advance of his follow-up call with Suzuki.
“The government strongly supports global efforts to promote sustainable forest management and halt deforestation,” spokesman Michael MacDonald wrote in an e-mail.
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