Posted on 06/06/08
Ottawa can't see forestry for the trees
VANCOUVER -- The forest industry is being ground into sawdust, with a GM-sized layoff every four months since the start of 2003.Pine beetles, softwood lumber taxes, a soaring dollar, a collapsing U.S. housing market: It all adds up to an industry-threatening crisis. In response, the House of Commons natural resources committee has leapt into action, suggesting the government ... strike a committee. That, and whip up an ad campaign extolling the wonders of wood.
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