Liberal Leader Christy Clark says U.S. “greed” driving softwood spat
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — Greedy “lumber barons” in the United States are to blame for the softwood lumber dispute, and their push to choke off the supply of disputed Canadian timber will only make it harder for the average American to buy a home, British Columbia Liberal Leader Christy Clark said Friday.
Clark told a crowd at a campaign event that if the Liberals are re-elected on May 9, they will not rest until a fair trade deal is reached.
“The American industry is … driven by greed, pure and simple,” she said, speaking at a log home manufacturing business in Williams Lake.
“They want to raise the price of lumber because they want to make more money. It’s that top one per cent in the United States that wants to line their pockets at the expense of the middle class.”