Dr. Roslyn Kunin, BC Business Columnist, Troy Media
It used to be so easy. All you had to do was look at housing start numbers for the US. That determined the health of the forest industry in British Columbia and, to a large extent, the state of the whole BC economy. This was when the woods sector had one dominant market, US home builders, and one prominent product, dimension lumber – of course in US dimensions. And it was the dominant player in BC’s economy.