Corey Hogan MP for Calgary Confederation

Oral Questions 5^th December 2025

From Hansard,

In response to a question about the Forestry sector’s chronic Liberal induced problems:

Corey Hogan (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Lib.):  

    Mr. Speaker, obviously, the unjustified trade war that the United States has brought on softwood lumber is unacceptable. We are working hard to resolve it. Today, the United States Chamber of Commerce called on the Trump administration to drop tariffs on lumber. We are seeing that the pressures are beginning to build.

    We will continue to work at all levels to resolve this, and we will continue to provide supports. We welcome suggestions from members opposite on what supports to bring.

Well, since you asked for it, here is a suggestion for you which should really appeal to the banker.

There has been devastation in South East Asia from floods and slides resulting in homes by the thousands being demolished.

We have vast amounts of lumber which the USA ​apparently does not want, so we could send it all to those ​affected countries and allow their people to rebuild with good strong Canadian lumber.

Of course we cannot just donate that lumber because there is no money for it, but if we gave a huge contract to Brookfield to ship that lumber then we would be helping the banker to fill his pocket book, and it could come from the budget for the homes that will not be built in Canada for years yet because the administration organisations do not even have office space yet.

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There is also the side effect that maybe we would be looked at with favour as a potential trade partner, instead of an arrogant bunch of political money grabbers.

That and of course saw mill workers, lumberjacks and truckers would still have a job.

If you can catch the banker in between his flights overseas for a rugby match or a photo op please submit it to him.

​ps: all the supports your government provides are at the further expense of taxpayers’ money and there is a limit to that.