Kim Haakstad - Trees, Tariffs & Trade Wars

So, yeah, because as I understand it, I mean, the government sets out the annual allowable cut.

And for anybody who's new to forestry, that means that the scientists, forest scientists say, here's how much you are allowed to cut in British Columbia.

And here's where those places are.

And that's the annual allowable number.

And, you know, it's cut into kilometers or however you, I think it's

based on numbers,

right? And so then- It's

hectares, I think,

but- Hectares, yeah.

Yeah,

another metric of metric.

But in British Columbia, the government hasn't said to forest companies, okay, good, here's the rules.

Here's how much the scientists say you're allowed to cut.

We're only gonna let you cut half of that.

Why is that? That makes no sense to me.

I mean, that's not being in a position to fight back against the Americans.

Yeah, no, for sure.

And I think that, you know, we've said with government, we're cutting about 30 million cubic meters a year now.

We've set a shared goal of hitting 45 million cubic meters a year.

And the allowable annual cut is still 60.

So we're still not reaching that sustainable cut that's determined by BC's chief forester using the science that you talked about.

an independent office, right, of government.

He has the ability to make these decisions independently.

So we're not reaching that.

And there is a whole host of reasons.