Kenora Candidates Look at Forest Industry

This week, CKDR is taking a look at the Federal election and the important issues impacting the Kenora Riding.
Today we ask the candidates what they plan to do to help the forest industry.
Conservative Greg Rickford points to the $23-million Federal investment to help the Dryden Mill.
Rickford says the investment has created new jobs and will make it energy efficient by the end of December.
He says similar investments will help the struggling sector.
Liberal Roger Valley says the Federal Government needs to create a strong package to ensure Northern Ontario moves forward.
Valley adds the Government needs to scrap the softwood lumber agreement, which he says is crushing the industry.
NDP Candidate Tania Cameron says her party is ready to launch sector based strategies to ensure backbone industries stay strong.
Independent Kelvin Chicago-Boucher says he wants to focus on the environment, noting forestry companies are destroying land without permission from aboriginal communities.
Chicago-Boucher says forest companies need to be held accountable.
Mike Schwindt of the Green Party says he wants to look at forestry waste projects as an energy source to make mills more efficient.
Schwindt adds the sector needs more stimulus to look at value-added production.
We head to the polls next Monday.