At least one candidate for the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding thinks the feds aren’t doing enough to help the province’s forestry industry and vows to do more if he gets elected.

Ken Finlayson is running for the People’s Party of Canada in the upcoming federal election and he thinks cutting a new trade deal on lumber with the US would help reboot the forest sector.

Appearing on the NL Morning News, he acknowledged that would mean dealing with President Donald Trump. “There’s lots of things I don’t like about him be he seems to be an entrepreneur.”

“You have to bring something to table and we’ve got supply management here and we can use that as a bargaining chip to gain access to that American market which we currently which we currently have a twenty two percent tariff stopping us at the border south of here. That would help our lumber industry and that’s a problem that federal politicians can address.”

Finlayson doesn’t think we’ve seen the worst yet, saying there is a perfect storm shaping up in our forest industry and we’re going to have a disaster like we’ve never seen before.

He added it needs to be addressed at a federal level.