An article by Colin McClelland (Financial Post, Sept. 20) is based on a report from a U.S.-based lobby organization that misrepresents the facts about how Canada’s forests are managed and how toilet paper is made. In Canada, most fibre in toilet paper comes from wood residuals — in other words, materials that would otherwise be wood waste. Trees are a renewable resource and are sustainably harvested to make low-carbon building materials like lumber. Leftover wood chips, bark, and sawdust go into other products like toilet paper, sanitary products, biofuels, and other low carbon biomaterials. This is the circular economy in action and represents our ‘Made in Canada’ commitment to reducing waste by getting value from every part of the tree. It’s also preferable to the alternative, which would be letting wood chips pile up and risk the starting of a forest fire.