Prime Minister Mark Carney started his day in Victoria on Monday talking about national parks and protected areas, but when he got to Premier David Eby’s office, the topic changed to protecting forest workers’ jobs.

The industry took another body blow Friday when the U.S. served notice that a countervailing duty on most softwood lumber will jump to 34.45 per cent from 14.4 per cent in coming months.

B.C. officials made it clear they are keenly interested in seeing the province get the same federal attention the auto industry (read: Ontario) will be getting in terms of emergency response.

For all the patriotic talk about the Team Canada approach, the federal government has to stay as even-handed as possible during the tariff war to keep the team together.

B.C. officials made it clear they think Ottawa is coming up short.

Eby signalled before the brief private meeting with Carney that the latest punitive U.S. trade measure was going to be top of mind.

He said after the meeting that the “renewed assault on our forestry sector needs the same Team Canada response as the manufacturing and........

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