Ward Stamer

KAMLOOPS, BC — …Rick Doman was appointed as the new chair of the Forest Innovation Investment (FII) board. …While Doman brings more than 40 years of industry experience, B.C. Forest Critic Ward Stamer is unsure if it will lead to tangible changes. “I have all the confidence in someone like Rick Doman to be able to chair that,” highlighted Stamer. “But it doesn’t get to the root issues that we have right now in our forest industry. One of them is certainty of supply. We don’t have enough fibre for our manufacturing facilities and without that fibre, our secondary manufacturing — which is what FII is really set up for — isn’t going to have products to sell in the first place.” …Stamer doesn’t believe Doman can be successful in this new role because he isn’t being given the tools from the province to succeed.