Opinion: Forest industry not collapsing due to tariffs, but because NDP has gutted it from the inside

B.C.’s forest communities are on life support.

Families are losing jobs, mills are shuttering, and entire towns are being hollowed out. And now, with another punishing softwood lumber tariff slapped on by the U.S., the bleeding has gone from slow to catastrophic.

Premier David Eby calls it an “existential crisis” and wants the prime minister to declare a national emergency.

Here’s a better idea: How about the premier stops being the emergency?

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For eight years, the B.C. NDP has dismantled the foundation of our forest industry. They have made it harder to cut, harder to haul, harder to process, and harder to survive. Now Eby is running to Ottawa and blaming the Americans while ignoring the damage his government has already done.