Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

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Speaking of rare earth... very informative and explains why we're reliant on China:

I wonder how long it will take for the Feds and the B.C. government to try and stop hobby and part time guys like me from sawing our own timber and selling it on marketplace as part of an all out effort to keep the unionized mills afloat.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I wonder how long it will take for the Feds and the B.C. government to try and stop hobby and part time guys like me from sawing our own timber and selling it on marketplace as part of an all out effort to keep the unionized mills afloat.

BC's allowable annual cut is 60M m3... we can cut that every year without endangering the eco-system.

For many years we're been undercutting by up to 30M m3 due to economic, policy, environmental and consultation issues.

You'd need a couple of hundred more sawmills, going full speed 24/7, to catch up and that's not going to happen because they've all left for Alberta and the southern USA.

So I think the 'back yard loggers' are pretty safe

 

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We also don’t provide the same products. We’ve been cutting 200 year old Douglas Fir in posts from 4inches to 10 inches and as long as 16’. You’d never get that from Home Depot lol.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/david-eby-forestry-industry-trump-tariffs-9.6938080

 

[Altair]

Speaking of rare earth... very informative and explains why we're reliant on China:

I'm glad this person is saying exactly what I've been saying.

Chinese are doing it because it's extremely dirty.

Chinese are doing it because they tossed environmental standards and emission standards in the trash

Chinese can produce it for extremely cheap prices because of those two reasons, and nobody in the west is going to be able to compete without massive subsidies to do it.

Advanced economies are cooked without Chinese REE.

All this to say, not buying Chinese this or Chinese that for fears of enriching the enemy, that boat sailed a long time ago.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I'm glad this person is saying exactly what I've been saying.

Chinese are doing it because it's extremely dirty.

Chinese are doing it because they tossed environmental standards and emission standards in the trash

Chinese can produce it for extremely cheap prices because of those two reasons, and nobody in the west is going to be able to compete without massive subsidies to do it.

Advanced economies are cooked without Chinese REE.

All this to say, not buying Chinese this or Chinese that for fears of enriching the enemy, that boat sailed a long time ago.

More importantly, the West has largely outsourced its carbon footprint so our politicians can pontificate about the duty of others to safeguard the planet, and get re-elected by their ill informed electorates

 

[Eaglelord17]

More importantly, the West has largely outsourced its carbon footprint so our politicians can pontificate about the duty of others to safeguard the planet, and get re-elected by their ill informed electorates

False environmentalism. Remember somehow it is better for the planet to import goods made with no environmental controls shipped by super tankers which burn more more fuel than anything else out there, than it is to make it in country with environmental controls and ship a short distance.

The real story there is outsourcing our lower and middle class jobs to foreign lands so our politicians and CEOs can make more money at the expense of our citizenry.

 

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Canada’s once famous electronic communications and telecommunications hardware manufacturers were driven by environmental and related political harassment to relocate their manufacturing plants to Mexico then China.