B.C. forest minister says Canadas relationship with U.S. has changed forever [Video]

B.C.’s minister of forests said that Canada’s relationship with the United States has changed forever.

Speaking to Reuters on Wednesday, Ravi Parmar said that, “If there’s one thing that we’ve learned from the threat of President Trump’s tariffs is our relationship with the United States has changed forever.”

“Not just on lumber, but on all goods and services.”

Parmar said B.C. is on edge about what is going to happen as they don’t know what is going to come next.

“And for the forest sector in particular, we face many challenges,” he said.

“We have faced wildfires. We’ve faced the end of the beetle kill, pine beetle epidemic, and we’ve also taken a number of steps to conserve our forests as well through new conservation measures to protect the biodiversity and the ecosystem as well.”

In early March, Trump said Canada will face new tariffs on dairy and lumberthat match the ones he said Canada puts on those products, and expected them to …