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.
A July 2022 briefing note obtained through an access-to-information request shows that Japan has asked Ottawa to be part of the International Tropical Timber Organization.
Canada was among the signatories to the 1983 treaty that originally created the organization, but Stephen Harper's Conservative government pulled out of it in 2013. A briefing note prepared for International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan notes Japan's invitation to rejoin but doesn't specify when it was made.
Six months later, Natural Resources Canada says it"continues to actively consider whether to rejoin the treaty" but will not elaborate on that process.
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