Now Let's See What Canfor Is All About:One Man's Opinion

By Ben Meisner

The freeing up of a huge tract of timber in the Mackenzie area with Canfor having the same opportunity as other forest companies working the area, will finally put to rest the question of whether Canfor really has the future of Mackenzie in mind.

A recent gab fest with a bunch of truckers who work the area around Mackenzie didn’t suggest to me that there is any appetite for cutting their hauling costs. As one trucker said, when they were making all sorts of money, and my fuel bill was going up month after month they weren’t there for me.

That attitude seems to be what you find from suppliers and truckers in the region, of course there also is a handful that would buckle under fearing that Canfor will take their business elsewhere if they don’t belly up to the bar.

That speaks volumes about how the company is viewed by the rank and file, those people who have toiled, as one person said, for the past 20 years , "Without so much as a thank you, and they now come calling asking for some of my pay check back?"

Under the terms of the release of the new wood, everyone ,including Abitibi, Dunkley and others will also get a crack at the bid. The result of releasing this wood is that the cost of getting the fibre to the mill will drop greatly and we now will see just how loyal Canfor is to the community of Mackenzie

I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion.

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