Internal records released to The Tyee in response to an FOI request confirm critics’ suspicions that B.C.’s Special Tree Protection Regulation was meant to sound good to the public while protecting the interests of the logging industry. 

Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee's legislative bureau chief, reports.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/09/26/BC-Big-Trees-Protection-Toothless-Government-Knew/

Internal records released to The Tyee in response to an FOI request confirm critics’ suspicions that B.C.’s Special Tree Protection Regulation was meant to sound good to the public while protecting the interests of the logging industry. Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee's legislative bureau chief, reports. https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/09/26/BC-Big-Trees-Protection-Toothless-Government-Knew/

BC’s Big Trees Protection Is Toothless. Government Knew It

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