During the last years, the Canadian Industry of saw log remained profitable, in spite of the challenges of various economic and commercial pressures.
 

Thus, since 2000, the number of jobs from the industry fell a lot, but, which is surprising is the force with which it was restructured thanks to the development of the labour productivity. These favorable aspects and a rather considerable growth of the prices of saw log and the incomes coming from the exploitation, undoubtedly contributed to the maintenance of the economic indices favorable and comparable with those of 1999-2005. The challenges to which industry had to face are not negligible: the canado-American Agreement on the saw log and the imposition of antidumping duties and compensation by the United States, the rise of the prices of energy and the raw material, the fall of the prices of saw log and the rise of the rate of exchange of the Canadian dollar.
 

What must be retained is the rise of the production and the production of work especially under such conditions, which shows that one has still much more to say regarding the future of the wood industry, in general.