It’s Not Just Trump’s Tariff War Hurting BC’s Forest Sector – The Tyee

May 13, 2025

The legacy of provincial policies and industry decisions is equally to blame. A Tyee investigation.

In August 2022, shortly after Canfor Corp. announced plans to spend more than US$200 million to build a new high-tech sawmill in southern Alabama, local media reported that a suite of subsidies had sealed the deal to keep the company in the state.

A photograph accompanying the article showed the Stars and Stripes waving in the wind atop a crane fitted with a huge grapple to move bundles of logs.

In front of the crane stood a long wall of pine logs blanketed by a bright blue sky studded with white clouds blowing in from the Gulf of Mexico, now renamed the Gulf of America in the United States under presidential decree.