Monday November 3, 2025 | VANCOUVER, BC [Posted at 11:51 am PT]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
NOVEMBER 3, 2025: Premier Eby says BC’s previously announced anti-American ads will *not* be running; instead there will be cooperation with the federal government on all strategies dealing with the US trade situation.
BC government social media ads protesting about US tariffs on softwood lumber will not run afterall, said Premier David Eby today.
Eby addressed media in Vancouver after a BC Forestry Summit. He was accompanied by Dominic LeBlanc, federal Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, Internal Trade and One Canadian Economy, who has been the lead negotiator for Canada in trade talks with the United States over the past many months.
The ads that also included a challenge around Russia getting favourable tariff rates could have been playing with fire.
Part of Eby’s rationale — as he said in Vancouver to media today — was that “it felt like we were going it along there for a while.”
The provocative ads had been posted by BC Forests Minister Ravi Parmar in social media two weekends ago, and at least one of the ads was presented on national TV in a news interview on CBC on October 25.
Trump didn’t like Ontario’s ads that were critical of the US trade war approach, and suspended trade talks last week in response.
Clearly this had put Prime Minister Mark Carney on the spot, who ended up having to apologize to Trump — that happened when the two leaders happened to be in the same place last week to attend trade talks in the Asia-Pacific region.
BC cooperating with federal strategy:
Carney and Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy Minister Dominic LeBlanc still have a big job on their hands to steer Canada’s economy and sovereignty through rough waters.
It was made abundantly clear today that BC will fall in line with what Carney is trying to do with regard to Canada-US trade negotiations.
Funding supports:
Money always helps — Eby was pleased that economic supports for the forestry sector will be forthcoming from the federal government.
For weeks, Eby has been making the case that forestry is as important to the Canadian economy as energy, steel and aluminum which have been getting the lion’s share of mention and attention in political debate about the trade war (and possibly also actual Canada-US trade negotiations).
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