VICTORIA — In just two years, the Softwood Lumber Agreement has cost BC’s forest industry more than half a billion dollars in new export taxes and led some companies to invest outside the province, a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds.
“Far from delivering security, the Canada-US softwood pact has seriously undermined BC’s lumber producers and hurt rural...
November 27, 2008
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