🇨🇦 B.C. finally admits permits were strangling forestry

After years of suffocating one of Canada’s core industries with cutblock-by-cutblock bureaucracy, B.C. now says it wants a working forest for working people. Translation: the province helped cripple forestry, then showed up with a rebrand. The pilot near Campbell River is built around a 45 million cubic metre annual harvest target and promises less red tape, as reported, but wrapped in the usual eco-managerial jargon of multiple-use zones, conservation networks, and no-net-loss slogans.

That no-net-loss gimmick is classic modern governance: announce certainty for industry, then leave the real power in the hands of bureaucrats who decide what land gets swapped, downgraded, or locked away later. Forest Minister Ravi Parmar wants applause for discovering that resource economies need stable access to resources. Brilliant. The real issue is sovereignty over our own land and jobs. B.C. should be maximizing productive use for Canadians, not balancing every sawmill decision against activist pressure, academic theory, and performative green bookkeeping.

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