Feds need to move on ridding Canadian lumber of U.S. tariffs, helping forest industry

Every year seems to be a forest fire catastrophe in Canada now, and the losses to the industry and rural communities are incalculable.

Despite all of the recent engagement between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump, there has been no action on removing the tariffs the Americans placed on Canadian softwood lumber in 2017, writes Richard Cannings. Photograph courtesy of Justin Trudeau’s Twitter

Opinion

BY NDP MP RICHARD CANNINGS

December 12, 2018

Recently there has been much focus on the challenges facing the oil sector of Canada’s economy, but much less attention has been paid to the serious problems confronting the forestry sector. In 2017, the United States placed significant import tariffs (more than 23 per cent in some cases) on soft...

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