Call for Delegates

National Forum on the Boreal Standard

When and Where: May 21-24, 2003 in Toronto
Number of Delegate sought: 1

To Apply: Fill-out application form below and send it back to Chantal Bois at: email: chantal@cen-rce.org or fax: 613-728-2963
Deadline to apply: April 30th at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time
Subsidize: Travel, accommodation and meals are covered

Consultation Details

The Forest Stewardship Council is a non-governmental non-profit organization, which promotes good forest management by developing certification standards, by promoting certification and by accrediting third-party certification bodies. FSC Canada is presently developing a certification standard for the boreal forest of Canada and will hold a national forum to provide an opportunity to exchange ideas and issues. The forum will be held 21-24 May 2003 in Toronto.

FSC Canada invited CEN to select 1 ENGO representative. Preferably, the representative should have relevant expertise as well as experience in developing or implementing forest certification standards.

This forum will follow the consultation phase for the FSC National Boreal Standard Draft 1.1 in which, the FSC Canada Working Group together with the Boreal Coordinating Committee will hear views, perspectives and issues from representatives of regional groups and sector-based coalitions. The intent of such a forum is:

• to provide an opportunity to exchange and come to common understanding regarding ideas;
• to establish a priority ranking regarding differing issues;
• to recommend and agree on specific approaches for reconciliation;
• to build broad support for decisions taken.

Present at that forum will be the FSC Board, the FSC Boreal Coordinating Committee, representatives from the National Standards Advisory Committee, the volunteer chairs of each of the FSC regional initiatives and one nominee from each of the following constituencies: the ENGO coalition, FPAC, the Aboriginal Advisory Council and the Canadian Labour Congress.

For more information on FSC Canada and the boreal process, I invite you to visit the FSC Canada website, and the FSC boreal page.

The registration for this call has closed, questions may be directed to:
Chantal Bois,
CEN National Caucus Coordinator,
tel: 613-728-9810 ext.24.