More than one talking head in “The Issue With Tissue – A Boreal Love Story” uses the phrase “flushing away our forests,” to the point that it becomes a kind of aghast …
’s eco-documentary — tonally encapsulating its earnest exasperation with the world, or at least its human custodians. One can forgive the repetition, since the image is so pointed: Every year, vast stretches of Canada’s richly biodiverse boreal forest region are razed for that most literally disposable of causes: the manufacture of toilet paper. “Is there a more obscene illustration for what’s gone wrong?” asks one Indigenous elder and activist for his native environment.
Zelniker begins proceedings with a staged, satirical vox-pop in a large supermarket, as a succession of bewildered shoppers are confronted by a blustering, badly toupeed Charmin representative inviting them to choose between his product — made entirely with freshly pulped timber from the boreal forest — and an equally soft, fully recycled equivalent. To his astonishment, they all choose the latter, “nasty” option.
Counter to the right-on talking heads, the film features a voiceless rogues’ gallery of negligent Canadian leaders complicit in the destruction. Former Quebec premier Philippe Couillard is quoted as saying, “I won’t sacrifice a single job in the forest for the caribou” — a quote that exemplifies how various politicians and policy-makers play one issue against another in order to put the environment second.
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