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Economic Impact of Industry on Briti

Historically, togging and
ihe forest industries have
been critical to British
Columbia's economy. Twenty
years before its incorporation
as a Canadian province, B.C.
was exporting ‘sawn timber
fram commercial mills near
Victoria and Sooke - notably
to San Francisco in return for
payment in gold dust.

That historical reliance’ ’

has not diminished. Logging
and silviculture, ~:. the
manufacture. ‘of lumber,
plywood, pulp, paper and
other forest products, and. the

economic activity associated .

with their transport and sale,
conlinues drive © the
provincial economy.

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In 1999, the forest seclor
alone accounted for more
than half the tolal value of
B.C. manufacturing
shipments. .

Nor is any olher
economic sector in British
Columbia expected to surpass
forestry ‘as the province's
dominant | wealth-creating
industry, despite concerns
about future timber supply. In
1991, the B.C. Forest
Resources ‘Commission
reported, "[he fores{ industry
is’ the most. significant
economic. ‘force in — the
province, and will remain so
for the foreseeable future. It

‘should in no way be seen as a

“sunsel' . industry." The

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METHODOLOGY

The Forest Alliance of
B.C., in association with The
Vancouver Board of Trade,
has allempted to quantify the
total economic impact of
forest industry activity in
British Columbia in 1993.
This study was prepared by
The Chancellor Partners
Management - Consultants
using information from an
input-output - model
developed by the provincial
Ministry of Finance and
Corporate Relations and
Statistics Canada, updated to.
1993 and © exlended = to

consider the impact of
government re-spending of
provincial revenues derived
from forest industry activity.
The consideration — of
economic impacts associated
with re-spending provincial
revenues makes the findings
in this report. © more
comprehensive | and
statistically sound than ‘those
in- previous analyses,
EMPLOYMENT

The forest sector directly
employed 89,500 British
Calombian's in 1993, or 5.7
per cent of the province's
total’ work . force. Direct
employment includes primary
extractive logging,
silviculture, the ~- wood

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