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Liberal leader talks tough in face of Trump’s tariff threats JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
B.C. Liberal Party leader Christy Clark took her jobs and economy message to the North Shore on Thursday, making a campaign stop at North Vancouver’s Fibreco Export terminal to say her party is best-positioned to defend resource jobs and B.C.’s economic interests.
Wearing a blue hardhat, Clark climbed into a small pile of Fibreco’s wood pellets and scooped them up in her hands before walking through a warehouse to speak to reporters, flanked by Fibreco managers and North Vancouver Liberal candidates Naomi Yamamoto and Jane Thornthwaite. Clark said Fibreco, which provides work for 50 employees, is a reminder that B.C.’s forest industry is still a big economic driver for the province. “The biggest forest-dependent town in British Columbia is Metro Vancouver,” said Clark. “Loggers need mills, mills
Flanked by B.C. Liberal candidates Naomi Yamamoto and Jane Thornthwaite, and Fibreco’s Henry Zea, B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark gets up close to a pile of wood pellets at the North Vancouver port terminal Thursday morning. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD need terminals and terminals are an important well-paying employer here on the North Shore and throughout the Lower Mainland.” Clark said the forest industry has diversified by getting into areas like the wood pellets shipped by Fibreco and needs to make more inroads into markets in China, India
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and Korea. Clark added the forest industry provides 60,000 jobs in B.C. “That is what is on the line for B.C.,” she said. “We are the only party British Columbians can count on to stand up for them.” Workers need “a government that has their back,” she said. “That leadership is more
important now than it has ever been.” Clark’s campaign stop Thursday coincides with increasing concern on trade issues between the U.S. and Canada. Most recently, U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated support for a U.S. plan to hike import duties on B.C. softwood lumber heading
to the U.S. by over 20 per cent. The U.S. and Canada have been locked in a dispute about a deal on softwood lumber since the last agreement expired in 2015. On Thursday, the NDP campaign said a former U.S. trade representative has indicated the U.S. and Canada were close to an agreement
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under the Obama administration until somebody on the Canadian side decided a better deal might be possible under Trump. In response to questions about that, Clark said Thursday that “everybody” on the Canadian side of the
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