[The Working Man]

It will allow harvesting of our forests by American companies. I don’t know how many lumber companies and sawmills in the Pacific Northwest were shutdown and their employees forced to become welfare dependents.

Yes in the short term there will be cost increases. In the long term the costs will come down and thousands of people will go off of the government teat and become self-supporting and proud of themselves once again that they can support themselves and their families.

[Alberta's Child]

The last time the U.S. imposed tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber, major Canadian lumber producers responded by buying up many mills here in the U.S. Right now, there are more than 40 U.S. lumber mills owned by Canadian companies.

I don't think this tariff is likely to have the intended results. U.S. production will be maintained, but it will be mainly for our domestic market. Meanwhile, production north of the border will continue unabated -- and they will undercut U.S. producers for export markets.