Gaétan Malette
- Born
- Timmins, Ontario
- Career
- Forestry executive; 45 years in the forestry and mining industries across Eastern Canada
- Political Experience
- Elected MP for Kapuskasing—Timmins—Mushkegowuk in 2025
- Notable
- Chair of the Timmins & District Hospital, the Timmins District Roman Catholic Separate School Board, and the Timmins Francophone Community Health Centre. Vice-chair of the Timmins Police Services Board, a director of Mattagami AKI, and a commissioner with the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission. Director of the Canadian Lumber Manufacturing Association and chair of the Ontario Lumber Manufacturing Association.
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Gaétan Malette is a retired Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer. He also previously served as the mayor of the township of Fauquier-Strickland, Ontario.
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Total votes cast: 47,137
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present a petition initiated by the Bolger family in honour of their late father, Jim, who was tragically struck by a reckless driver in Timmins back in September. The petition calls for a review of Criminal Code offences related to dangerous driving that cause death or bodily harm, stronger sentencing provisions and tougher penalties for repeat offenders. Jim's
Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask for unanimous consent to return to petitions under Routine Proceedings.
Thank you. Mr. Kalesnikoff, you were talking about 100 Mile House. We often forget why we're involved in this report and this task force. In the end, it's to protect jobs and it's to save communities. There are 300 communities across this country that live from the forest industry. It's probably more than that, because then there are the neighbouring communities who have contractors and logging
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Kalesnikoff and Monsieur Verreault, you are the co-chairs of the transformation task force on forestry. It was certainly a very challenging task that you had to do. I've read the report, or, I should say, I've studied it. It gave me hope as a Canadian to read through the report. Looking at the vision in the next 25 years, how do we bring Canada back as a world leader?
Thank you. Monsieur Verreault, in the report there's an interesting section on doubling our consumption of the lumber, mass timber, OSB and MDF that we utilize in this country. Could you expand on that a little bit? To us, it doesn't seem like a large amount of lumber. What percentage would it take away from the U.S. markets? How critical could that be?