"Major fault lies with the Chrétien and Martin governments who have done nothing whatsoever to defend us from Washington corruption, so yes there is fault here, that's the point ... producers have tried to work up other markets for many decades, with some success, and they continue to do so, however only three nations build homes the way we do - Canada, Japan, and the US ... nobody else uses such proportion of lumber in homes, though most all do tend to use some if only for window and door frames, furniture etc"
So maybe part of the fault lies with the industry who should be reducing the amount of lumber they cut. Perhaps if the US were faced with the loss of 1/3 of the lumber it needs, or a radically higher price for 1/3 of the houses it builds, they might give themselves a shake. The trees just get bigger if you don't cut them for a year or so..... Perhaps the companies need to look at building support industries to employ some of the people who used to cut and produce the oversupply, and start shipping not lumber, but prefab parts for houses. The added labour would be paid for by the cheap supply of lumber available to the people building the prefab parts. |
