B.C. minister pushes Ottawa to stand up for ailing forestry sector (BC)
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
The coverage treats B. C. ’s plea as a routine request for “support,” as if Ottawa’s job is simply to smooth over every market shock.
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Ottawa needs to prioritize the forestry sector in upcoming trade negotiations with the United States or be prepared to support the struggling industry, B.C.’s forests minister said at a Vancouver conference Thursday. “We need to know that as part of CUSMA renegotiations that forestry
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The coverage treats B.C.’s plea as a routine request for “support,” as if Ottawa’s job is simply to smooth over every market shock. That framing skips the harder question: why Canada keeps walking into predictable U.S. trade fights with soft language and slow leverage.
Forestry is not a boutique industry. It is a strategic, working-sector backbone that depends on credible trade enforcement, not photo-op diplomacy. If CUSMA talks are coming, Ottawa should be ready to press on reciprocal access and counter bad-faith duties, instead of assuming polite process will save mills.
Support, if needed, should be tied to public trust and fairness for taxpayers, not open-ended subsidies that reward failure. The principle at stake is simple: national economic security means defending producers with seriousness, not slogans.
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