{"id":75901,"date":"2025-08-01T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=75901"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:22:36","slug":"bourgouin-urges-the-government-to-adopt-a-buy-it-here-build-it-here-strategy-to-support-the-lumber-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/bourgouin-urges-the-government-to-adopt-a-buy-it-here-build-it-here-strategy-to-support-the-lumber-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bourgouin urges the government to adopt a \u201cbuy it here, build it here\u201d strategy to support the lumber industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>Aug 1, 2025 at 08:21<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OntarioNDP.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-71973\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OntarioNDP-300x108.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OntarioNDP-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OntarioNDP-600x216.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OntarioNDP.png 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>July 29th, 2025 &#8211; NDP MPP Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Forestry Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk \u2013 James Bay) is calling for a strategy to support the lumber industry in response to Trump\u2019s tariffs threatening the sector:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lumber industry is vital to Ontario\u2019s economy,\u201d said Bourgouin. \u201cThe anti-dumping tariffs imposed by Trump will devastate our lumber industry. Condemning Trump\u2019s actions isn\u2019t enough. We saw it with the auto sector, with steel, and now with lumber \u2014 the Premier\u2019s \u2018wait and see\u2019 approach is leaving thousands of workers vulnerable to layoffs. What Ontario needs is a real plan from this government to protect the lumber industry and the good jobs that come with it. Instead, Doug Ford and his Conservatives continue to treat the northern economy as an afterthought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marit Stiles and the Ontario NDP have been calling for a \u201cbuy it here, build it here\u201d approach and are urging both the federal and provincial governments to support Ontario\u2019s forestry sector, including a plan to build more homes and buildings using Ontario wood.<\/p>\n<p>During Stiles\u2019 recent visit to Thunder Bay\u2019s Domtar lumber plant, workers highlighted the facility\u2019s capacity to supply enough lumber to build 85,000 homes annually. Stiles and the Ontario NDP urged governments to seize this opportunity to tackle multiple challenges at once by investing in local production, protecting good jobs, and addressing the housing crisis through made-in-Ontario solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 1, 2025 at 08:21 July 29th, 2025 &#8211; NDP MPP Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Forestry Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk \u2013 James Bay) is calling for a strategy to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":71973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 19:22:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75903,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75901\/revisions\/75903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}