This will surely make housing more affordable in the U.S!

For folks who are lamenting that the Canada/US relationship has cratered because Trump was reelected, this is something that's been an ongoing problem since 1982. Canada has been on the "abused" side of this relationship for a long time, it's just sighed and endured it until now.

just in time to make logging in national parks great again

It's forcing Canada to diversify away from the US, which has for decades kept Canada in good sold to US markets below global market value, now with new trading partners Canadian Industry stands to benefit for global market rates and diversified markets.

It's been long overdue for Canada, and will hurt the US in the long term as it loses prefered customer status.

So .... I live in the province that's most impacted by this (BC), but not in a logging area. I gotta admit I'm not really sure how to think about this particular tariff area, despite all the media scare mongering over the years.

Like we hear about mills closing, and logs getting shipped 400km from small communities with closed mills, to get turned into pulp at big mills, generally for export to other countries. And those closures have been ongoing for like decades now, with a seemingly shrinking market presence north of the border despite our governments feigned attempts to take action, and all the free trade stuff that's been in play. K.

We also hear about the high cost of construction, and have a serious housing problem -- with the government saying they're gonna try addressing that issue more in the next 5 or so years.

We'll need lumber to make those houses. We can use lumber to make furniture for those houses. Hell, we can use lumber to make things like the towels/dishcloths that go into those houses. We use lumber for our ass paper in those houses. If the US doesn't want to buy it as a result of them tariffing it to shit, why not sell it cheap to local manufacturers to supply local demand with local product?

One thing I've often heard, is that BC exports raw stuff down south, and then we end up buying back processed goods, which seems kinda wrong to me. If those manufacturing facilities are generally south of the border currently..... it can't be that difficult to get em setup up here. I mean, shit, with all those closed mills.... repurpose them, and repurpose the people who were in that industry, to be slightly further down that supply chain.... no?

Fun.

Fuck ‘em. Elbows up brothers.

...if the industry could get production levels back to historic levels, it could help keep forestry-dependent communities vibrant into the future.

The entire industry is in decline because of over harvesting in the past. This is just wishful thinking, lol.

If the BC gov't wanted to save small communities that rely on logging there's an excellent report written at the NDP's behest on just how to do that. However those reccomendations would mean less profit for the large corporations hell bent on clearcutting every last tree and packing up their mills and killing towns.

So naturally this report and it's reccomendations have been completely ignored.

Tarrifs have never been the problem.

Trump seems to have a resolution of 5%, so I wonder who came up with this number.

How much is a slap in respect to a slam?

yawn, this again?

Didn't Canada win every single trade tribunal challenge on this exact same baseless complaint in the past?