A review of the corporate structure of Paper Excellence — Canada’s largest forestry company — found it shares no current “relationship of control” with a Sino-Indonesian pulp and paper giant alleged to have carried out widespread deforestation.
A spokesperson for Paper Excellence said it has “numerous sites certified” under the FSC and has “done nothing to warrant removal from the program.” Paper Excellence did not give a response when asked if McMillan is currently on retainer as its legal counsel. No answers on whether review attempted to verify ICIJ investigation The NGOs' complaint to the FSC came eight months after several media outlets — including CBC News, Radio France Le Monde, Glacier Media and the Halifax Examiner — worked as partners under the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to examine relationships between the two companies.
Greenpeace said a credible investigation would require reaching out to whistleblowers who spoke to and provided documents to the international team of journalists. McMillan advised Paper Excellence on the Domtar and Resolute acquisitions. It also provided services to Paper Excellence in an earlier purchase of the Catalyst chain of mills in B.C., and in another case, one of the firm's lawyers represented Paper Excellence at a Canadian Transportation Agency tribunal in a dispute between the company's Meadow Lake mill and CN Rail.
'Whole thing seems to smell' Allan Hutchinson, a law professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall law school, said on the surface, there appear to be “a number of conflicts of interest” and it’s not clear why McMillan or the FSC would choose to work together.
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