This does not include the environmental costs that will be borne for centuries.
Industrial forestry is rife with illegal activities nearly everywhere it is practiced.
But the timeless values of intact forests fade quickly as the timber cartels roll into town and liquidate the forest capital in an orgiastic boom. A bust always follows. There is no excuse for an economically well-off country like Canada to tolerate the current system of economic patronage, financial inducements and ecological vandalism that characterizes its timber industry. It is not the role of self-government to aid and abet the industrial logging juggernaut in destroying Canada's ecological heritage for the benefit of the rich and powerful few. Industrial forestry in old-growth forests cannot be redeemed, reformed or in any manner made tolerable.