STE-CATHERINE-DE-LA-JACQUES-CARTIER, Que. — Tom Mulcair says a New Democrat government would inject $105 million over three years to bolster the country’s struggling forestry sector.
Speaking in the Quebec City area today, the NDP leader committed to earmark $55 million of that total to forestry manufacturing facilities.
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The pledge also includes a $40-million boost for research and development and $10 million to promote Canadian wood products abroad.
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Mulcair accused the Conservative government of doing too little for the country’s hobbled forestry sector.
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The NDP says the commitment will create 2,500 forestry jobs in Canada and leverage $270 million in new, private-sector funding.
He is campaigning today in a riding that was held by his party in the last Parliament – in a region that is now being heavily targeted by the Tories.
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