Friday, July 31, 2020, Afternoon — Committee A
To answer the member's questions, this is a fee in lieu of manufacturing. It's to recognize that the publicly held asset, the forests of B.C., if exported in a form that's not fully manufactured, means that workers in communities are not fully benefiting from that publicly held source. So it's not a tax; it's a fee-in-lieu of manufacturing. As far as what that fee in lieu will be, we are working with industry, with groups like the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association, with major licensees like Western Forest Products, Teal-Jones, as well as smaller companies. The list is long. To establish that…. It's not yet established, but staff will be bringing recommendations to me soon.
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