Campbell River Mayor Kermit Dahl led with skepticism in an interview with Resource Works on November 3, after Ottawa and British Columbia announced a joint working group for the province’s embattled forest sector. “I think it’s pretty standard,” said Dahl, a driving force behind the founding of the Alliance of Resource Communities, representing rural BC communities who rely on the resource sector. “It’s very similar to the press releases we’ve heard for years.” The remarks followed a Vancouver summit where [politicians] outlined a coordinated response to U.S. softwood duties and tariffs and announced a federal–provincial working group. Dahl added that officials were “trying to tippy-toe around the issues and and stay friendly,” but that “there’s no teeth at the end,” before asking, “What happens when nothing has changed in a month or three months? We’ve heard these things over and over again. It’s just another committee.”