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1 growth, you say, is particularly precious. Would you,
2 please, identify which Canadian old growth is particularly
3 precious?
4 A. Do I say it is particularly precious?
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6 Q. You say it here in answer to my question. You say:
7 "When you have something like Canada where about 60 per
8 cent of old growth remains, even though some of it is
9 particularly precious, you have to look at it in a slightly
10 different way." Which part of Canada's old growth forest
11 is particularly precious, geographically speaking"?
12 A. I want to rephrase that. Some is particularly precious
13 for humans. That is particularly seen in British Columbia
14 because of the magnificence of it, but if you happen to be
15 a slug or beetle sitting in the middle of an Albertan
16 clear-cut, that particularly old growth is very precious to
17 you. I would say that all old growth is precious, some
18 because of human considerations, often to do with beauty,
19 age, spiritual things, is more precious to humans, but
20 ultimately if you happen to be an animal the bit of old
21 growth around you is the bit you care about.
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23 Q. Including rotting stumps and snags that have not been
24 removed in accordance with policy, correct?
25 A. They would be important to you, yes.
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27 MR. RAMPTON: Thank you.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you. Are there any questions you want
30 to ask arising out of that?
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32 MR. MORRIS: No questions.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you, Mr. Hopkins.
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36 MR. MORRIS: It may be helpful to say I had a word with
37 Mrs. Brinley-Codd.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What do you want to talk about?
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41 MR. MORRIS: The time tabling is the most urgent thing to
42 discuss.
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What we have is Mr. Siddique on Monday,
45 Professor Ashworth on Tuesday and Mr. McIntyre on
46 Wednesday. Having covered a lot of ground with Mr. Stump,
47 I really think that we ought to be able to deal with all
48 those three witnesses in those three days. Do you
49 anticipate any problem about that?
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51 MS. STEEL: The thing with Siddique, although it is some of the
52 same ground, it is a different time period so it may take
53 some amount of time.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I would urge you to spend a little time at
56 the weekend thinking hard about the particular areas you
57 want to concentrate on; it is in your own interests as much
58 as anything else. I noticed in one of the letters you
59 wrote that you referred to time at the end of evidence,
60 before speeches are made to read, I do not remember now
