On Thursday, Minister Joly announced the fast tracking of Prime Minister Carney’s recent $1.2 billion dollar subsidy package for Canada’s lumber industry aimed at neutralizing U.S. antidumping and countervailing lumber duties. “Targeted industry support like this is exactly the type of unfair subsidy that our longstanding trade laws are designed to address,” said Zoltan van Heyningen. …“I am sure that President Trump and his Administration are watching Canada’s unrelenting announcements of new multibillion-dollar subsidies for Canada’s already heavily subsidized lumber industry. We hope that President Trump will adjust upward his Section 232 lumber tariff measures in response to each new massive subsidy announcement by the Canadian government,” continued van Heyningen. …”The rhetoric from Canadian industry and provincial officials claiming that their ‘wood’ is better and invoking ‘Russia,’ it is all sounding very desperate and much more like a guilty plea,” concluded van Heyningen.