Free trade has stolen the jobs, said one businessman, who would not be identified. We get 40 percent of the final value of the wood product. Canada gets the other 60 percent. There is no balance. Jackman s Main Street shows the effect of a shrinking forestry profit.
Restaurants are closed and expansion is limited.
Even the tourist information building is half-buried under a pile of dirty snow. Beth and Ray Stevens opened The Moose Mart, next to Moose River Bridge, in January. It s been difficult, said Beth Stevens. The truckers are now starting to spread the word that we are here and that we re the last stop before Canada. The Stevenses said a few protesters had been through their store.