By CKPG Today

Tariffs

BC Conservative Party release tariff plan

Feb 24, 2025 | 10:03 AM

PRINCE GEORGE — In the face of the threat of American tariffs, the BC Conservative Party has released its plan to deal with the issue.

Leader John Rustad says British Columbia should legislate to ban British Columbia-based environmental activists from accessing American funding for their campaigns against our resource workers and industries.

“These troublemaking layabouts have wasted RCMP resources, violated court injunctions, and dragged our resource industries through costly litigation,” said Rustad, “in good part thanks to American financial backers.”

“These groups have also helped radicalize the formerly blue-collar NDP into an unrecognizable form of anti-prosperity activists.”

Rustad is also proposing that the carbon tax on high heat value coal be applied to every ton of coal from Wyoming and Montana moving through British Columbia’s ports.

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“The carbon tax is levied on coal mined in British Columbia, but not on coal mined in the United States and moved through our ports,” said Rustad. “Until such time as the unfair and unwarranted American duties on our softwood are removed, we need to be ready to hit the Americans where it hurts.”

Rustad said the carbon tax will be held in escrow until we have concluded a softwood lumber agreement.