Softwood Lumber Agreement High on Premier’s Radar
(at right, Premier Clark at Natural Resource Forum)Premier Clark is looking at early summer for a resolution “My best case scenario , is I would like to see this get wrapped up before the end of the legislative session, or thereabouts”.
Clark says there are a lot of trade issues on the table at the moment “There’s the Trans Pacific Partnership on the table, there’s the Free trade deal we know they (federal Government) want to work on with China, We want to make sure there is full focus on Soft wood lumber, and I am hopeful, we will see some new ideas from the new federal government on how we can move quickly to get it settled.”
Clark has faith the Federal Government will get the job done “I really do believe that Prime Minister Trudeau is absolutely committed to getting this thing done, and he knows it has only ever been settled in the past with the Prime Minister phoning the President and they make a deal so that’s the only way it gets done, and he ( Justin Trudeau) understands that, and I’m really convinced he wants to get it done. He has surprised a lot of people with what he can get done, so, maybe he’ll say ‘just watch me.”
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Softwood Lumber agreement expired in 2015 with a one year extension ie; 2016. Seems the Americans are not in a big hurry to reopen this file, so unless we get something going pretty quickly this agreement could be dead in the water. What would be the ramifications of not having an agreement???
Not having an agreement means having to pay more to ship to the US, closing some markets that were open to canadian softwood producers under the agreement, cost of producing goes up and so on
Not to mention the US forest companies taking not only governments but companies to court over perceived unfair practises
The ramifications of no softwood lumber agreement has a huge impact in BC, Quebec and Ontario
The US Lumber producers will likely be pushing to start negotiations now that the dollar has dropped down to 70 cents US. This makes Canadian lumber much more attractive to US buyers.
So much very low on her radar, health care, seniors, children, social services, education..
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