Federal Aid Package Panned

N-D-P's forestry critic says a new aid package for Canada's forest industry doesn't address the issues impacting the industry.

Ottawa is providing the struggling pulp and paper industry with a billion dollars for capital improvements that increases productions and use of clean energy.

But Thunder Bay-Rainy River M-P John Rafferty says doubts it will help mills or their workers much.

"While this is welcomed and certainly the environmental measures at pulp and paper mills is good," says Rafferty, "but not everyone is going to be able to access that. This announcement doesn't create one forestry job, nor does it safe one forestry job."

Rafferty is also disappointed the government won't meet the "black liquor" subsidies provided to U-S mills.