Dix’s modest proposal for the forest industry

By Vaughn Palmer

As B.C. moved onto an election footing more than a decade ago, Adrian Dix’s mentor, then-premier Glen Clark, was in characteristic form, all bluster and hyperbole. …Dix announced his own plan for the forest industry this week and the contents were to Clark’s jobs and timber accord as night is to day. No threatening to punch the industry in the nose. “A profitable and competitive forest industry that creates good paying jobs,” was listed as the prime goal of a Dix-led NDP government.

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