Before we get our resources to market, we need to make sure those markets actually want them

Canada was built on forestry, but if we want to ensure that that industry and the over 200,000 people employed in it can continue to thrive, things are going to have to change.

If Mark Carney wants to bolster our relationships with allies and find new markets for our forest products, he’s going to have to embark on a different sort of nation-building project, one that reshapes logging into a truly sustainable industry, writes David Wallis, policy manager for reforestation at Nature Canada.Photograph courtesy of NoName_13, Pixabay.com

Opinion

BY DAVID WALLIS

June 15, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney has set forth an ambitious agenda to reshape the Canadian economy in order to stand up to economic aggression from the United States through large-scale “nation-building projects.” These projects will get our goods and resources to new markets,...

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