Ravi Parmar

…B.C. Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar was on Vancouver Island March 13, to meet with the B.C. Forest Safety Council and to talk about supports for forestry workers. … “We know the biggest challenge to our national forestry sector is the unfair, unjust and unprovoked duties and tariffs that Donald Trump has imposed on us … we are focused on being sure that we can get a long-term deal with the United States,” Parmar said. According to him, the path forward is “very uncertain” for many workers on the Island, especially in Chemainus and Crofton where lumber and pulp mills have shut down. …“We have to move this sector away from ‘boom and bust’ to stability and certainty.” That means getting more value out of lumber produced in B.C. … Raw logs exports, Parmar said, have been reduced by 80 per cent since the NDP took office and new companies are taking up the challenge of manufacturing wood products in B.C.