The forest industry has long been known as a key driver in B.C.’s economy, but a new study reveals its economic impact is even more profound, in generating significant economic activity in all regions of the province including big cities, small towns and Indigenous communities.
Provincially, our forest industry drives 140,000 jobs — one out of every 17 jobs in the province. Another 80,000 jobs are supported through indirect and induced economic activity. In the Vancouver Island-Coast region, the forest industry is the largest resource sector, with more than 10,000 direct jobs, and an additional 11,000 indirect and induced jobs combined. In the Kootenay region, the nearly 6,900 jobs in forestry are second only to the mining and oil/gas sectors.
Notably, the forest industry employs more Indigenous people — more than any other resource sector in the province — with 5,300 Indigenous workers in the industry. That’s nine per cent, or one in every 11 jobs in the forest sector, with more and more Indigenous-owned contractors and manufacturing companies entering the industry and establishing partnerships with industry.
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