BC NDP Forests Minister Ravi Parmar avoided the usual political pledges to accept recommendations from the latest in-depth analysis of the province’s troubled forest industry. The NDP government’s appointed experts, the Provincial Forest Advisory Committee, tabled their findings on February 2 after a six-month review of an industry that is moving from decline to collapse. …Parmar took the NDP’s familiar path, rather than address the sweeping recommendations to restructure the entire forest land base… he said the mill closures that are devastating communities across the province are mostly Donald Trump’s fault. …The report calls this a “land care” system. Its recommendations give a careful nod to indigenous rights and title. Of course, the NDP government has already begun its own project to establish regional management areas… with Crown land control being quietly turned over to selected indigenous groups claiming title. It sidesteps a too-slow BC Treaty Commission and bypasses Canadian case law.