PRINCE GEORGE – Just a few months ago Canfor earned a record quarterly reported operating income of $1.04 billion driven by unprecedented high lumber prices and strong operating performance across all regions. Lumber prices have recently come back down to levels still considered high, although far from the record high boom in the first half of 2021. That fall has now affected operations at several BC sawmills. On Wednesday, Canfor announced that production at all of their BC sawmills would be cut back to 80% in response to what the company called challenging market conditions. Forestry critic John Rustad says this whole scenario was avoidable, citing government forestry policy that makes doing business in BC expensive compared to other places in North America. …According to Rustad, the break-even point for forestry companies is so inflated, BC has become one of, if not the most expensive place in North America to produce forestry products.