I am writing regarding Bill 46, Protect Ontario by Cutting Red Tape Act, 2025, specifically regarding proposed amendments to the Crown Forest Sustainability Act, 1994. Unifor’s 24,000 forestry sector members – including more than 4,000 in Ontario – work in a variety of forestry, logging, and firefighting occupations as well as wood product, bioenergy and pulp and paper manufacturing facilities. Ontario’s forestry sector continues to experience a perfect storm of repeated and intersecting crises… and global challenges continues to destabilize the broader sector. The ongoing softwood lumber dispute and … intensified trade war are causing disastrous repercussions across the forestry sector. …Defending and rebuilding Canada’s forestry sector requires a comprehensive industrial strategy, spearheaded by the federal and provincial governments and informed by all relevant stakeholders, especially workers. It is in this context that I wish to provide some comments on Bill 46, Protect Ontario by Cutting Red Tape Act, 2025, especially regarding related amendments to the Crown Forest Sustainability Act, 1994 (CFSA).