Furstenau, Wilkinson take aim at NDP forestry policies as campaign enters final week

The final week of British Columbia’s election campaign got underway Saturday as NDP Leader John Horgan promised better cancer treatment options, while his rivals took aim at the New Democrats’ forestry policies.

During a campaign stop in Metchosin on Vancouver Island, Green Leader Sonia Furstenau said the NDP have not substantially changed the status quo of forestry management despite promising to do things differently.

“Over the last 3.5 years, the cutting of old-growth has continued as fast as it did under the B.C. Liberals,” she said, reading from the party’s platform.

Furstenau reiterated the Greens’ commitment to fully implementing the recommendations of the provincially appointed review panel on managing old-growth forests, promising to work in partnership with First Nations and to put an immediate stop to old-growth logging in high-risk ecosystems.