This is what BC forestry workers fear the trade war will do. A fresh crisis for an industry already close to collapse, forcing communities dependent on trees to come up with new ways to survive. John Brink is worried. “A lot of people will get hurt, losing their jobs, losing their businesses. …New tariffs on lumber couldn’t come at a worse time for British Columbia’s forest industry. A lot of companies have already packed up and moved south. Take Canfor, one of the world’s largest producers of forest products. In the last decade it shut down 10 of its 12 BC mill, three of those last year alone.