Prime Minister Mark Carney greets employees at the Gorman Brothers Lumber sawmill in West Kelowna, B.C. on Tuesday. Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account

Canada’s softwood lumber industry is welcoming a $1.2-billion federal support package that promotes diversifying the country’s trading partners as the trade war with the U.S. drags on, but officials caution that exporters cannot completely extricate themselves from their closest and largest market.

The measures announced this week by Prime Minister Mark Carney include programs to diversify and expand trade by marketing Canadian wood products abroad and prioritizing domestic lumber in a national housing construction push.

That is a tall order. The industry

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