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Vaughn Palmer: Governments here, not Trump, to blame for most forest sector woes

B.C. NDP quick to change the topic in face of federal panel report highlighting access to timber as top problem

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VICTORIA — B.C. Forests Minister Ravi Parmar couldn’t wait to change the subject this week when confronted with a federal government report that said the troubles of the whole country’s forest industry are mostly homegrown.

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“I would say that without a doubt there are structural challenges that our forest sector faces,” Parmar grudgingly conceded when a reporter asked about the final report released on Wednesday.

Vaughn Palmer: Governments here, not Trump, to blame for most forest sector woes Back to video

But those words were barely out of his mouth when Parmar pivoted to the NDP government’s preferred blame line........

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