PRINCE GEORGE – It couldn’t be in plainer language, laid out on social media. …“I think if we learned anything from the first Trump presidency, it’s that he’s very unpredictable and we should expect more of that in in the future,” says Dr. Gary Wilson, Political Scientist at UNBC. …Eighty per cent of BC’s softwood lumber is shipped to the United States. There is already a tariff of 17% on softwood. But Kurt Niquidet says American lumber consumers will be hit just as hard. “With these tariffs push up the costs and the prices in the US. So it hurts the consumer in the US for softwood lumber that’s been impacting the consumers of lumber. The home builders and so forth, and eroding housing affordability. And then in back in Canada, it negatively impacts our production and has impacts on businesses and workers and communities.”