Ontario forestry industry braced for ‘period of pain’

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Ontario Forest Industries Association president portrays an industry struggling for survival in the Trump tariff era Cross-border quarrels between Canada and the U.S. over goods and supply are nothing new, having its roots in the pre-Confederation days of the Jay Treaty of 1794, said Ian Dunn. The president-CEO of the 51-member Ontario Forest Industries Association (OFIA) calls the ongoing fight over exported Canadian lumber to the U.S. “probably the largest global trade dispute” since the close of the Second World War. “Tariffs are not a new thing for the lumber producers and our membership,” said Dunn. While the Trump administration...