Before the Last Shift Ends

By Justin FrapeWhat Ontario’s forestry collapse can teach us about protecting the auto industry before it is too lateFor nearly twenty-five years, I have lived in Northern Ontario. During much of that time, I watched one of the province’s foundational industries contract around us.The decline of forestry, and particularly of pulp and paper, was not an abstract economic trend. Mills that had shaped communities for generations curtailed production, shed shifts, stopped investing, clos