I lived in Guyana for three years, and I'm relatively familiar with the Guyanese story. I can say that the issue of log exports is a very controversial one in British Columbia. It's the only place in Canada where we have controls on log exports. Those exports are in place in British Columbia because there is a view that it protects manufacturing jobs in Canada. Other than that, though, I would say that the forest sector has more secondary manufacturing than any other resource sector in Canada, within our borders. Most of what we harvest from the forest is processed in Canada. There are logs that go overseas, but it's not a huge amount.
On November 1st, 2017. See this statement in context.