The lack of fibre for the forest industry is the direct product of more than 25 years of government policy.
The reality, contrary to what Shirley Bond and John Rustad stated in Ted Clarke’s article earlier this week, is that the NDP has done little to increase the burden of red tape on local Canfor operations. The big corporations logged and consolidated themselves into their own corner, created centralized supermills that now require ridiculous distances of log hauling to sustain, that process insane amounts of wood with minimal jobs in return, and they’ve only got themselves to blame.
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