Monday November 10, 2025 | FREDERICTON, NB [Reporting from VICTORIA, BC 10 am PT | Updated 11:28 am PT]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
The US is trying to shutout our forest sector, said Prime Minister Mark Carney today during a media announcement in New Brunswick today. Between tariffs and so-called anti-dumping duties, Canadian softwood lumber exports are subject to at least 45% surcharges now.
His announcement was around how Budget 2025 includes measures to promote Buy Canadian. “The world has changed, and Canada’s economic strategy much change.”
This is a radically different economic situation since US President Trump instituted tariffs around the world including some distinct pressures on Canada. “They’ve changed the rules,” said Carney today.
Budget 2025 includes a trillion dollars in investment, the prime minister said, as part of the strategy to reorient the Canadian economy in many aspects including trade diversification (across Canada and in other parts of the world beyond the United States) and protecting certain sectors and the jobs within those sectors.
Buy Canadian:
Central to the Buy Canadian federal strategy is becoming “our own best customer”, said Carney.
He outlined nearly $186 million in new founding from Budget 2025 to fully implement the Buy Canadian Policy.
- “We control, we decide, it’s our future, we’re moving forward,” said Carney about Budget 2025.
- “We’re going to build this great country,” he said.
- The Buy Canadian strategy includes using more Canadian stell, aluminum, lumber and other Canadian materials, products, technologies and services to “build Canada strong”.
Forestry was boosted last week:
One day ahead of the Budget announcement, last week the federal government sent cabinet ministers to Vancouver to discuss a coordinated strategy for dealing with US-source economic challenges and how the forestry sector will be supported.
===== RELATED:
- BC softwood lumber summit: provincial-federal cooperation & faster funds (November 3, 2025)
- BC won’t run anti-US ads about forestry tariffs, will cooperate with federal strategy (November 3, 2025)
- New BC forest trade office opening in England (October 27, 2025)
- BC may launch Canada-Russia-US forestry tariffs social media campaign (October 26, 2025)
- Op-Ed: BC government must act decisively to stabilize the forestry sector (October 23, 2025)
- Premier’s statement on softwood lumber (BC Government news release – April 5, 2025)
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