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House Hansard - 42

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 21, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 42 - Mar/21/22
Mrs. Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, CPC)
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Mr. Speaker, it is the first day of spring, a fitting day to mark as International Day of Forests. Forests sustain our lives in many ways. Around the world, 1.6 billion people depend directly on forests for food, shelter, energy, medicines and income. Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke is home to Algonquin Park. While Group of Seven artists Tom Thomson and A.Y. Jackson have immortalized the beauty of the park trees, we now have Wild Women, painters of the wilderness, Kathy Haycock, Joyce Burkholder and Linda Sorensen. Keeping our forests healthy are families of loggers, such as the Blaskies, Pecarskis, and Enrights. Sawmill families, including the Bells, Gulicks, Holkums, Heidemans, McRaes, Pastways, and Shaws, have given local residents a place to work for generations. Pembroke MDF makes the forestry residuals into cupboards and generates electricity. The rolling hills of the upper Ottawa Valley peak in brilliance in the fall. Whenever people's travels bring them to our forests, the people of the valley will welcome them.
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