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Tons of lumber piling up in lumber yards. Easy answer this is market manipulation by a few big players. Reprehensible during a global pandemic.

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Where is the source for this.

We do have Biden putting tariffs on Canadian lumber to help keep prices high, but that's the only thing I'm aware of.

I don't know of an official source, but if you can just drive by a mill. I've been by two and witness first hand the pile up. I've driven by one mill two times a year for like 17 years and they have at least 10x the milled lumber stacked up. I've never seen it even remotely that full. I say 10x but it could be even much more. The other mill had probably 3-4x what they normally had.

Maybe because they have ratcheted up production to try and handle demand. A lumberyard filled to the brim doesn't mean what you think it means if that entire yard full is being sold and replenished every week.

There was also a tariff and import cap put on during the Harper era.

Citation?

There's no reputable source. It's widely stated without more evidence than pictures of lumber yards by the QAnon-adjacent.

Its true, drive by a mill and compare with Google maps. I don't know what better source, you can see this first hand by going to a mill. I have.

Take a photo maybe?

What the hell is “Qanon-agacent” Is that just a way to deny things you don’t like to hear without critical thought?

My data comes from inside sources in the lumber industry.

Yours comes from… where exactly?

No it isn't. Trump decided that Americans harvest and mill their own lumber with the trade wars. That's all there is to it. When you suddenly cut imports then it will take time for your domestic companies to catch up. It's that simple.

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