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OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government has yet to respond to a months-old invitation from Tokyo to have Canada rejoin a global environmental organization that regulates the timber trade.
The organization currently includes 37 exporters of timber and 38 countries that import it, including all other G7 states. But Canada has now been absent from the timber organization for nearly a decade, during which the World Wildlife Fund has reported worsening tropical deforestation in parts of southern Africa and Peru, driven by illegal and unsustainable logging.
The document recommended to Sajjan that if Suzuki made note of Tokyo's previous invitation, he should respond that Canada"will consider rejoining" but note that Canada's"re-entry would require a long parliamentary accession process."
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