VANCOUVER — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will continue putting pressure on both sides to end the British Columbia port strike, as the stoppage drags on for a seventh day.
A shipment of Franklin Forest Products Ltd.’s lumber from Port Alberni is sitting in Vancouver because job action is preventing cargo vessels from sailing to offshore ports.
The lumber now in Vancouver was recently shipped to the mainland, he said. “It’s just all going to get pushed back a week, two, three — who knows how long?” The strike is also affecting the Port of Nanaimo where a vehicle processing centre takes shipments of new vehicles going to markets in Canada. About 7,400 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada walked off the job on Saturday at about 30 ports in B.C. The B.C. Maritime Employers Association is urging the union to return to bargaining under “a voluntary mediation-arbitration process,” while the union accuses the employers of trying to get the government to do its “dirty work.”
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Friday that the port strike is causing “extreme hardship” for her province’s producers and exporters. Alberta Transport Minister Devin Dreeshen had earlier called on the federal government to consider back-to-work legislation. “While premiers from other provinces have voiced their concerns, Premier David Eby and NDP Labour Minister Harry Bains have remained silent as the strike’s effects continue to escalate,” Kyllo said in the statement.
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