So naturally, you brought up broken legs. Brilliant!
Dont worry..................................
hemerHOID is a LIE-beral propaganda SCHILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He has NO ANSWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only insults!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Consider the CRAP LIE-berals want to hide with their Fake News:::::
Here is an article offering up a LIE-beral EXCUSE for troubles in the B.C. lumber industry!! With some comments of my own in brackets):
Fewer trees, higher costs blamed for devastating downturn in B.C. forestry
From Cdn Press
Published: Sept 15, 2019.
VANCOUVER — High log prices and dwindling timber supply are driving the crisis in British Columbia's forestry industry that has devastated communities and kneecapped the provincial economy, observers say.
(And should we ask how much influence a more subdued housing industry wioth less peroduct being marketed is having? And what of the Yankee tariffs on our Softwood Lumber exports - are they having a slow down effect as well?? And what of the trade war with China - are they simply buying less as well???????????)
(Or we could look at the local Cdn market - I know SEVERAL FORMER custom furniture maker who have been PRICED OUT of our allegedly “BOOMING” economy by a combination of cheap Chinese imports and lack of customers with enough after tax income to buy anything and now they are OUT OF BIZ - not buying any lumber!! So it looks to me like the grossly indebted world is simply buying LESS WOOD??????????)
Companies have announced shutdowns or curtailments in more than two dozen mills in the province, putting hundreds out of work and slashing economic growth predictions. Advocates are calling for urgent government action to stem the bleeding.
"Something needs to change immediately or these small communities that don't have other employers are going to wither and die," said Marty Gibbons, president of United Steelworkers Local 1-417, based in Kamloops, B.C.
(Our idiot Boy Justin is to be “thanked” for creating this situation!! It was his posturing on NAFTA and on national security issues that prompted the Yankees to punish him and us with Softwood tariffs!! AS for the Chinese- there is little to be done there- the Beijing Butchers have their own agenda that involves grabbing power and resources for China - at the expense of others and we must resist the BULLIES even though it will have a cost!! Adolf Hitler taught us that if you ignore the small stuff- then you will get hit with bigger issues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The local represents hundreds of forestry workers who have lost jobs in Interior communities including Merritt, Clearwater, Vavenby and Clinton.
The largest driving factor is the province's complex stumpage system that results in high fees, he said.
(OH- the forestry union is crying about the cost to feed govt gravy to civil service union HOGS!! LIE-berals NEED GRAVY to BUY votes and ALL of us ordinary people who are NOT FRIENDS of LIE-berals are expected to GIVE TILL IT HURTS - and it WILL HURT to give HOGS MOST OF their ENTITLEMENTS!!!)
"These are private businesses. If they can't turn a profit, there's no reason for them to run. Right now, it's not the markets that are the issue. It's the cost of the logs," he said.
Stumpage is a fee businesses pay when they harvest timber from Crown land. The B.C. government calculates stumpage annually, so the system is less responsive than in Alberta, where monthly adjustments are made, Gibbons said.
The Forests Ministry said stumpage fees are based on market demand and the current rates reflect the scarcity of timber supply that has resulted from the mountain pine beetle outbreak and been exacerbated by several severe fire seasons.
(And of course the LIE-beral NEED for gravy remains HIGH- with the B. C. Political scene remaining volatile - no party having a lock on the legislature and each trying to BUY as many votes as possible!! Govt survival is MORE important -to govt - than some starving wood workers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Intervention in the stumpage system would weaken the legal case in the appeals of the duties imposed by the United States on softwood lumber from Canada, the ministry said in a statement.
(Inother words it is not just local LIE-beral greed and arrogance - there is also federal LIE-beral greed and arrogance working against the forestry workers!! Our idiot Boy considers the actions that triggered the Softwood Tariffs to be a cheap way to insult the Yankees he despises!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
"It is well-known that any interference in B.C.'s market-based timber pricing system would lead to an increase in softwood lumber duties levied by the U.S.," it said.
Most of B.C.'s forest land is publicly owned, so companies have long-term tenure rights and the government charges them stumpage to harvest trees. In contrast, most land in the U.S. is private and companies face costs associated with replanting.
"That's what the stumpage fee is all about," explained Ken Peacock, chief economist of the Business Council of B.C. "It tries to equate, if it was privately owned, what the cost would be to operate and manage and reforest the land."
(That makes no sense since Cdn lumber companies ALSO ARE REQUIRED to plant replacement trees!! I have a nephew who made very good money at that re-planting work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Peacock said the high cost of logs is the major cause of the industry's decline in B.C. He also blamed the mountain pine beetle and record-breaking 2017 and 2018 fire seasons for decimating supply.
(There is another apparently self serving statement- the Pine Beetle has killed MANY TREES but the dead wood may still be harvested for up to seven years after the death of the trees - and B.C. appears to have flooded the market with Red Cedar that was killed by Pine Beetles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And we know there were BIG firws in B.C. but there are ALWAYS FIRES some place in B. C. So should we aks if the environmentalists are right- that B.C. is NOT harvesting in a sustainable way????????????????????)
The policies of Premier John Horgan's government are also breeding uncertainty, Peacock argued.
The government is developing a caribou habitat protection plan that the industry expects will further restrict access to northern timber, he said, and it's promised to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples without explaining how companies are meant to fulfil its requirement of "free, prior and informed consent" from First Nations.
(LIE-berals are desperate to steal as many votes as possible from NDP and Greenies so setting up Caribou habitat sounds like something all 3 parties are supporting!!!!!!)
(In related news- economists tell us that when the supply of a product is restricted- such as by putting it into no touch Caribou habitat -the price of the restricted product GOES UP- making the limited available product MORE VALUABLE!!! Why is this NOT HAPPENING with lumber?????????????????)
(A more limited product supply usually means lay offs for some workers -but why the wholesale job losses?? Unless my earlier comments about LOW SALES due to tariffs and trade war are right???????????)
The NDP government has also introduced Bill 22, which would control tenure transfers. Currently, a company that is scaling back or shutting down a mill can transfer its tenure to one that is operating, but the government wants oversight over these transfers to protect the "public interest," a term not defined in the legislation, Peacock said.
(The phrase “public interest” means politiciansreserve the right to DICTATE CHOICES- for the “public interest” which is a twisted phrase meaning “whatever is in the best political party interest”!! Forestry workers are in a job that is almost as despised by environmentalists as oil workers - with votes hanging in the balance if a party gives to much to lumber BARONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
"The picture here in B.C. is we are a very high cost jurisdiction. It's actually less costly to operate in Alberta and companies can make a profit milling lumber and producing two-by-fours in Alberta."
(High cost is ALWAYS the price of strong support for LIE-berals and their less intelligent cousins of NDP and Greenies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
On top of all that, market conditions in North America are softening, he noted.
(Ah yes- softer market - meaning the economy IS NOT BOOMING as LIE-berals CLAIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Forestry is the no. 1 engine that drives B.C.'s economy with nearly $15 billion in annual exports, representing one-third of the province's international merchandise exports and the largest segment by far, said Peacock.
The Business Council of B.C. just trimmed its 2019 economic forecast in part because of the forestry downturn, from 2.2 to 2 per cent growth, he said. The B.C. government also just cut its forecast to 1.7 per cent, citing mill closures in part.
The Forests Ministry said the challenges the province is facing have been in the making for many years and the previous Liberal government ignored them and failed to help the sector and communities adapt.
(Those who think strong govt intervention is the solution to many problems- have MANY MORE problems than they realize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)