SOPFIM’s Strategic Plan 2023-2025 is essential for the organization’s sustainability over time by dictating where it wants to go and establishing the steps to follow to get there. Strategic planning is not a one-time project, but an evolving one. SOPFIM has therefore embarked on a major project, that of forging the organization to face the future challenges it will have to meet. The four main strategic axes will therefore become organizational priorities to which actions and decisions must be directed.
About us
SOPFIM’s main mandate is to protect Quebec forests during the spruce budworm (SBW) epidemic. The regions currently affected by the epidemic are Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Capitale-Nationale, Gaspésie, Côte-Nord, Chaudière-Appalaches and Outaouais.
Our Mission
SOPFIM’s mission is to protect forest resources against insects and diseases in harmony with its environment. Its main mandate to date is the control of the spruce budworm (SBW). To do so, it carries out aerial spraying programs of biological insecticide (Btk) on Quebec’s forests.
Our Vision
Reflecting the vision of its members, SOPFIM is the world reference in terms of the fight against insects and diseases that ravage the forests with the greatest respect for the laws on the protection of the environment and in complete harmony with the living world.
Management committee
Eric T. Lacroix
General manager
Maïa Dessair
Director of Finance
André Maltais
Outgoing Finance Director
Nicolas Girard
Director of Operations
Tony Bouchard
IT Director
Éric Litalien
Director of Forestry and Environment
Amélie Labonté
Director of human resources
Our Team
At SOPFIM, we firmly believe that our team is the cornerstone of our success. It is made up of talented, dedicated and passionate individuals, each bringing a unique expertise and a valuable perspective to our common mission: protecting one of our most important collective resources, the forest!
Through a human approach, we value integrity and respect for the environment, and believe in a safe, unique and inclusive work environment. Working at the SOPFIM is more than a job, it’s accomplishing great things.
Board of Directors
SOPFIM’s business is managed by a nine-member Board of Directors.
Sylvain Aird
President of the Board
External member
Éric Bernier
Groupe Rémabec
Daniel Chouinard
MRNF
Geneviève Labrecque
Chantiers Chibougamau Ltée
Sonya Mangliar
External member
Sébastien Lacroix
MRNF
Frédéric Perron
MRNF
Jonathan Perron
Produits forestiers Résolu
Louise Rochette
External member
