Carney to visit West Kelowna business amid rising softwood lumber tensions
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is in British Columbia this week and is scheduled to visit Gorman Bros. Lumber in West Kelowna on Tuesday for a forestry-related announcement.
The visit follows several high-profile stops across the province, including a tour Monday of the Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Ranges near Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island.
On Sunday, Carney made a surprise appearance at the Vancouver Pride Parade, where he was greeted by cheering crowds along the downtown route. That same day, he met behind closed doors with B.C. Premier David Eby and officials from the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. Reporters were not permitted to attend.
The prime minister’s tour of B.C. comes amid renewed tensions in the long-standing softwood lumber dispute with the United States. Last month, the U.S. reimposed anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood products — a move the B.C. Council of Forest Industries has condemned as “unjustified and punitive trade actions.”
