[Alberta's Child]

I saw the same thing first-hand with the tariff on Canadian softwood lumber back in 2001-03. All it did was drive up the price of lumber for U.S. contractors, and drive up the price of new homes here in the U.S.

[mac_truck]

All it did was drive up the price of lumber for U.S. contractors, and drive up the price of new homes here in the U.S.

I can think of a lot of reasons American home prices went up in the early 2000s and the price of lumber isn't very high on the list.

Care to quantify your premise?