Robert McKellar

You know that times have changed when a political risk consultant experienced in managing challenges for companies working in the Middle East or West Africa casts an eye on BC’s forest industry. …The TLA and its members already manage political risk to BC’s logging industry, but given what lies ahead, a broader and more explicit political risk mindset can only help. On the domestic front, provincial and federal government policy is an ongoing source of political risk. …This is not a new challenge, but it has become particularly pressing in the context of the shockwaves from the return of Donald Trump and the threat of tariffs and duties. …The lack of provincial and federal government regulatory clarity alongside a serious squeeze in the US market, means that the lumber industry is somewhat impaired and confused just when it needs to be maximally focused and agile, and capable of inspiring investor confidence.