I would like to register my opinion regarding the export of raw, unprocessed logs from British Columbia. Although BC's forest legislation should work to forbid unprocessed logs to be exported from British Columbia, politicians keep on granting exemptions to the ban. Raw log exports are rapidly increasing under your government. This is indeed contrary to the Liberals pre-election promises, where your party stated that it opposes raw log exports! In fact, from 2001 to 2003 the provincial government in BC exported more than 10,881,255 cubic meters of raw, unprocessed logs at a time when the forestry rate of cut was unsustainable high. This export of unprocessed logs corresponds to 300,000 full logging trucks, which could have run 6 sawmills and employed nearly 4000 people annually in local communities around the province. The vast majority of these logs went to the US and to Asia.
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