If ya can't make money from cutting down trees, at least ya can make money getting handouts from governments. Integrate, increase awareness,finding out, bring options to the table,minimize effects, search for continual funding. Like I said. NOT cutting down trees. With dough like that out there, just for the asking, who needs a forest industry? We can talk instead. Less effort, too.

....and when will we see some results from these handouts?
I see lots of studies,think tanks,etc.etc. but let's actually see someone benefit in terms of employment,projects,plant upgrades,anything!
Seems these handouts are becoming an industry for a select few.
When do we get to see how and where this money is spent?

Aren't we fortunate that our resources are providing money to assist us during this transition time? Chester

Does Don Cadden still work for BC Parks?

Often these private incorporated societies doing the governments work are funded because they will carry out an agenda without political liability to the government, but working on the governments behalf. In many cases they are paid through fees, bonuses, salaries, and what have you that is double what the average joe makes going to work so s/he can pay the taxes to support the bureaucracy. Often as is the case they have a lump sum of money that has to be spent in order to increase the budget for next year and slowly the priority over time leans from funding the actual work they do... more so towards the compensation for these 'expertise' and the only watch dog around is the (unaccountable) BOD for the incorporated society that each are there because they have an interest in seeing their piece of the pie 'distributed appropriately'.

I'm not saying that is the case in this situation, but for the most part there is no other explanation for the majority of these private organizations government funded no matter how worthy the cause.

Government funding should be for government employees working in government programs that are paid the going government negotiated cost to do work for the public interest with full public freedom of information accountability.

The argument that government employees cost more then private industry is wrong when the strategy is designed to undermine the going negotiated government rate for the employees... while making it a wash and actually costing more for executive compensation packages.

Look at the UNBC presidents payout and think how often that happens with these private not-for-profit enterprises funded with government dollars that the public will have no freedom of information to ever know the payouts took place. IMO the waste is huge and it often involves political favoritism. Gordon Campbell is a huge fan of this form of government.

Well said owl!

I hear the jobless rate is falling in PG. Its from all the people being hired to do these studies and such. Also being rehired to study the study. Where can I get on this gravy train? Maybe I have to be a Gordo buddy.