Re: Supporting Ontario’s Forestry Sector and Communities: I am writing to respectfully request action from the Ontario government to support the province’s forestry sector, forestry workers, and the numerous forestry-dependent rural communities across Ontario. …Our members know first-hand that Ontario’s forestry sector continues to experience a perfect storm of repeated and intersecting crises, and a combination of economic, environmental, and global challenges continues to destabilize the broader sector. The ongoing softwood lumber dispute and the threat of further tariffs have intensified a trade war that are causing disastrous repercussions across the forestry sector. …Ontario’s forestry sector and forestry workers face an ongoing poly-crisis, and it is critical that governments and other stakeholders work together in coordination. Provincial level supports, policies and other responses are a critical part of this coordinated response, but a patchwork or piecemeal approach won’t work. 

Additional coverage from CTV in this video story: ‘This is a dire situation’: UNIFOR president on U.S. hiking softwood lumber duties