John Waldie, “The Lumbermen's Association of Ontario, president's address, Toronto", 1901
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We must continue to insist that our Dominion Government shall adopt a tariff against lumber and all wood products entering into competition, remove them from the free list, and relieve the lumber industry from the unequal competition of lumber manufactured and freighted under more favorable conditions. Today, labor, machinery and mill supplies are higher in Canada than in the United States, and when low transportation rates on lumber are given from the Southern States, we in Ontario are placed in competition with the cheap colored labor of the South; and lumbermen in New Ontario and British Columbia are at a disadvantage when competing with Oregon and Washington Territory for the trade of our Prairie Province.
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We have had to base the prices of our productions on those of producers who have advantages towards cheap manufacture which we do not possess. […] the United States manufacturers having a protected home market of their own in which they make every effort to maintain prices, regularly disturb our conditions and prices by using our Canadian markets as a dumping ground in which to unload their surplus stock at prices below what they will accept in their own markets, or at which we can, under present conditions, manufacture, and it is from this unfair competition we ask protection.
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